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Baked Halibut with Cilantro Yogurt Sauce Recipe

this dish is simple but packed with suprisingly excellent taste contrasts. i was seeking a way to cook fish is a way that healthy but not steamed. use fat free...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lime and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,491 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Baked Halibut with Cilantro Yogurt Sauce Recipe

2 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

266Calories
45 gProtein
4 gFat
13 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Halibut100g cooked140
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By chow. 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. Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

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

  2. Yogurt + limetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together581 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Yogurt + peppertop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,425 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Yogurt + saucetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together833 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sauce + limetop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yogurt, sauce, pepper):

  1. Limethe original
  2. Mangofits about as well
  3. Avocadofits less well
  4. Lemonfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against yogurt, sauce, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.