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Smoky Fishcakes with Oat Crumb

Give your fish cakes an extra crunch with this oaty recipe

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Smoky Fishcakes with Oat Crumb

Why it works: Haddock and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 200 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Smoky Fishcakes with Oat Crumb

Serves 2
Prep5 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

549Calories
41 gProtein
9 gFat
75 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Haddock100g cooked112
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Saucenot in our table0
Sunflower Oilnot 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. Haddock + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together200 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  3. Potato + sunflowertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together303 recipes

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

  4. Oats + sunflowertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Onion + sunflowertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together989 recipes

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

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, haddock, sauce, oats, egg, sunflower):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, haddock, sauce, oats, egg, sunflower. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.