Name: Tangy Trout with a Simple Garden Salad
Yield: Serves 1
Ingredients: 1 lemon; a small bunch of dill , half chopped, half left as sprigs; 1 rainbow trout , gutted and washed, weighing about 350g/12oz; 2 tbsp olive oil , plus a little extra for greasing; 2 tbsp Greek yogurt; ½ garlic clove; 4 runner beans , stringed and thinly sliced diagonally; 3 radishes , sliced into thin rounds

Why it works: Lemon and dill match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 976 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Tangy Trout with a Simple Garden Salad

Serves 1

Ingredients

1 lemon
a small bunch of dill , half chopped, half left as sprigs
1 rainbow trout , gutted and washed, weighing about 350g/12oz
2 tbsp olive oil , plus a little extra for greasing
2 tbsp Greek yogurt
½ garlic clove
4 runner beans , stringed and thinly sliced diagonally
3 radishes , sliced into thin rounds

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

246Calories

18 gProtein

15 gFat

13 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Dill	5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried	4
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Rainbow Trout	not in our table	0
Bean	not in our table	0

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.

Lemon + dilltop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together976 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Olive + beanstop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,470 recipes

Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Garlic + radishtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together199 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Beans + radishtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together67 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, dill, olive, yogurt, garlic, beans, radish):

Corianderfits better
Parsleyfits better
Cuminfits better
Clovethe original

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

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