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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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Why it works: Marjoram and fennel share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 39 recipes mention both. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Marjoram + fenneltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together39 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Lemon + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together957 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + fenneltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together723 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Pepper + marjoramtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the plum

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

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Orangebetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  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. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).