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Thai Green Curry Fish Pie

This East-meets-West recipe is a mouthwateringly original dish. Either make four small pot pies or one large pie.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Thai Green Curry Fish Pie

Why it works: Coconut and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 934 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Thai Green Curry Fish Pie

Makes 4 pies

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1175Calories
85 gProtein
61 gFat
72 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Salmon100g cooked208
Rice Bran1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Haddock100g cooked112
Shrimp100g cooked99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Kaffir Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Pastrynot 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. Coconut + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together934 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Rice + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,063 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Shallot + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

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

  4. Shallot + limetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together258 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, fish, shallot, mushroom, coconut, milk, egg):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Vanillafits about as well
  3. Cherryfits about as well
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, fish, shallot, mushroom, coconut, milk, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.