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Italian Baked Sea Bass

A simple but flavoursome oven-roasted fish supper that's easy to throw together. Serve it in the roasting tin for the ultimate dig-in dish

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Italian Baked Sea Bass

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Italian Baked Sea Bass

Serves 2
Prep5 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

407Calories
7 gProtein
36 gFat
21 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Olive1 large (4g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1

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

By bbcgoodfood. 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + pinetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together480 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, onion, olive, garlic, clove, lemon, pine):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, onion, olive, garlic, clove, lemon, pine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.