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Seared Scallops with Pickled Daikon & Chilli Jam

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Seared Scallops with Pickled Daikon & Chilli Jam

Why it works: Chard and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 246 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Seared Scallops with Pickled Daikon & Chilli Jam

Serves 4

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

661Calories
32 gProtein
16 gFat
97 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 20 ingredients. The other 6 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Shrimp100g cooked99
Green Apple1 medium (182g)95
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Waternot in our table0
Chardnot in our table0
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Seednot in our table0
Coriandernot in our table0
Daikonnot 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. Chard + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together246 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chard + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together320 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Lemon + chardtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together88 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Chard + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, radish, chard, olive, scallop, sunflower, garlic):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, radish, chard, olive, scallop, sunflower, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.