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Pan-fried Red Mullet with Spicy Lentil Salad

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By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Pan-fried Red Mullet with Spicy Lentil Salad

Why it works: Lentils and pine share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Pan-fried Red Mullet with Spicy Lentil Salad

Serves 4

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

875Calories
19 gProtein
49 gFat
105 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 13 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Lentil1/2 cup cooked (99g)115
Green Apple1 medium (182g)95
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Peppermintnot in our table0
Coriandernot 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 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. Lentils + pinetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Mint + coriandertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together940 recipes

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

  3. Lentils + coriandertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together273 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Pepper + coriandertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,949 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Coriander + pinetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together101 recipes

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

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 (lentils, apple, pepper, onion, mint, coriander, pine):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against lentils, apple, pepper, onion, mint, coriander, pine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.