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Coulibiac De Saumon Et Lavaret

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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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 ↓

Coulibiac De Saumon Et Lavaret

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a coulibiac dough as described in the coulibiac dough article.

  2. Sauté the salmon and lavaret fillets in butter and lemon, then let them cool.

  3. Cook the vésiga according to the rules, chop it, and sauté with a shallot in butter, adding parsley and fennel.

  4. Once heated, transfer to a bowl to cool and mix in the sliced hard-boiled eggs.

  5. Prepare a semolina mixture, passing it through a sieve after cooking, or use cooked rice ensuring the grains separate.

  6. Assemble the coulibiac as described in the eel coulibiac article.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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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. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
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    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  3. Parsley + fenneltop 1% of all pairs
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    Cooked together625 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Lemon + fenneltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together723 recipes

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

  5. Shallot + fenneltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together146 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the fennel

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, lemon, rice, shallot, parsley, egg, semolina):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Fennelthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, lemon, rice, shallot, parsley, egg, semolina. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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