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Ultimate Fish Cakes

Angela Nilsen went in search of perfection in her quest to pack flavour and texture into fish cakes

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Ultimate Fish Cakes

Why it works: Capers and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 405 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Ultimate Fish Cakes

Serves 4

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1315Calories
78 gProtein
43 gFat
152 gCarbs

Counts 15 of 17 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 15 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Salmon100g cooked208
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Haddock100g cooked112
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Watercress1 cup (34g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Capers1 tbsp (9g) drained2
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Horseradishnot 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. Capers + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together405 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Horseradish + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Capers + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together624 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Capers + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together82 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Mustard + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together859 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (capers, horseradish, mustard, shallot, parsley, haddock, milk):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Beetrootfits better
  3. Welsh onionfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against capers, horseradish, mustard, shallot, parsley, haddock, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.