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Chili/Lime Halibut Recipe

This is a terrific dish I did a few months ago for TheKitchenHotline.com. You can substitute any fish, even salmon or tuna and it will still be amazing. I serve...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lime and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,491 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Chili/Lime Halibut Recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

284Calories
28 gProtein
17 gFat
6 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Halibut100g cooked140
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. 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. Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

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

  2. Lime + canola oiltop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together240 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Pepper + canola oiltop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,125 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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 (pepper, canola oil):

  1. Limethe original
  2. Lemonfits about as well
  3. Avocadofits less well
  4. Mangofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, canola oil. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.