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Halibut with Watercress Pesto and Cannellini Beans Recipe

This filling, flavorful, and healthy fish dish calls for broiling meaty halibut fillets with thin lemon rounds. The accompanying beans are flecked with sweet...

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Halibut with Watercress Pesto and Cannellini Beans Recipe

Why it works: Watercress and capers share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 60 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Halibut with Watercress Pesto and Cannellini Beans Recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

333Calories
30 gProtein
17 gFat
16 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 14 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Halibut100g cooked140
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Watercress1 cup (34g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Capers1 tbsp (9g) drained2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Cannellini Beannot in our table0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Watercress + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together60 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Parsley + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,550 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Watercress + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together469 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, watercress, parsley, capers, garlic, pepper, lemon):

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Dillfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, watercress, parsley, capers, garlic, pepper, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.