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White Fish with Spicy Beans and Chorizo

Mop up the juices of this low-fat supper dish with crusty bread

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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White Fish with Spicy Beans and Chorizo

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

White Fish with Spicy Beans and Chorizo

Serves 4
Prep5 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

804Calories
74 gProtein
42 gFat
30 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Salmon100g cooked208
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Haddock100g cooked112
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Green Cabbage1 cup shredded (89g)22
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Cannellini Beannot in our table0
Waternot 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,590 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Rosemary + clovetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together519 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Rosemary + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,180 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, onion, rosemary, garlic, clove, beans, sugar):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Eggplantfits better
  3. Kalefits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, onion, rosemary, garlic, clove, beans, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.