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Seared Soy Tuna Steaks with Spring Onions & a Ginger Sweet Potato Mash

Glaze meaty fish with robust Asian flavours and serve with a colourful mash for a speedy midweek supper

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Seared Soy Tuna Steaks with Spring Onions & a Ginger Sweet Potato Mash

Why it works: Sweet potato and ginger work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 306 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Seared Soy Tuna Steaks with Spring Onions & a Ginger Sweet Potato Mash

Serves 2

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

645Calories
26 gProtein
38 gFat
48 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Salmon100g cooked208
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2

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. Sweet potato + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together306 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Ginger + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,595 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Sweet potato + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together960 recipes

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

  4. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Butter + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, ginger, onion, sauce):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Sweet potatothe original

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