Skip to main content

Pan-fried Sea Trout, Peas & Chorizo Fricassée

Sea trout has a subtle flavour that goes well with robust ingredients like smoky chorizo

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Sea trout and olive work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 21 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep30 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Sea trout + olivetop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Potato + chickentop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  3. Olive + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  4. Olive + caperstop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,555 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Olive + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the capers

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sea trout, butter, lemon, olive, potato, chicken, peas):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  3. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  4. Capersthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sea trout, butter, lemon, olive, potato, chicken, peas. 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).