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Baked Snapper with Mandarin Oranges, Cashews and Ginger

"Snapper is baked with a deliciously spicy orange and ginger sauce then served with a garnish of chopped cashews and green onion."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Mandarin orange and lime share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 17 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep20 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Contains: tree nuts, soy, fish, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Mandarin orange + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17 recipes

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

  2. Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,491 recipes

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

  3. Lime + gingertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,621 recipes

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

  4. Sesame + gingertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,531 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Mandarin orange + gingertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together26 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sesame

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (snapper, mandarin orange, lime, sugar, sauce, pepper, ginger):

  1. Sesamethe original
  2. Cashew nutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against snapper, mandarin orange, lime, sugar, sauce, pepper, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).