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Cod with Italian Crumb Topping

"This recipe is a good, low-fat, and quick cod recipe."

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Cod with Italian Crumb Topping

Why it works: Olive and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 25,665 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Cod with Italian Crumb Topping

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

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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. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,090 recipes

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

  3. Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Parmesan cheese + olivetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together30,263 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, parmesan cheese, olive, pepper, egg):

  1. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  2. Basilabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Garlicthe original
  4. Capersabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, parmesan cheese, olive, pepper, egg. 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).