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Fantastic Tomato & Fennel Salad with Flaked Barbecued Fish

The nice thing about this dish is that you have the lovely, cool salad contrasting with your warm or hot fish. It works really well and is beautifully refreshing. Feel free to use whatever fish looks nice and fresh, just ask your fishmonger to fillet and pin-bone it for you.

By jamieoliver · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Fantastic Tomato & Fennel Salad with Flaked Barbecued Fish

Why it works: Lemon and marjoram match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 957 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Fantastic Tomato & Fennel Salad with Flaked Barbecued Fish

Serves 4

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

432Calories
24 gProtein
27 gFat
25 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 13 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Salmon100g cooked208
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Fennel1/2 bulb (87g)27
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Mackerelnot in our table0
Troutnot in our table0
Marjoramnot 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 jamieoliver. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Lemon + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together957 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + fenneltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together723 recipes

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

  3. Marjoram + fenneltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together39 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Pepper + marjoramtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, lemon, pepper, fish, marjoram, fennel, vinegar):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, lemon, pepper, fish, marjoram, fennel, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.