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Baked Sea Bass with Lemon & Herbs

This delicious fish dish is the perfect alternative to a Sunday roast

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Baked Sea Bass with Lemon & Herbs

Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Baked Sea Bass with Lemon & Herbs

Serves 4

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

655Calories
29 gProtein
48 gFat
31 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Salmon100g cooked208
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
White Bread1 slice (30g) white79
Fennel1/2 bulb (87g)27
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Tarragon1 tsp dried (0.5g)2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Almond + pinetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together176 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Lemon + pinetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together480 recipes

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

  5. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 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 nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, lemon, garlic, clove, parsley, almond, pine):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Pistachiofits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, lemon, garlic, clove, parsley, almond, pine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.