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Grilled Salmon Cutlets

Grilled salmon slices seasoned with pepper and sea salt, basted with butter, served with caper, tomato, or brown butter sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,923 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Grilled Salmon Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Rub oil or butter over the salmon slices.

  2. Sprinkle with pepper and coarse sea salt.

Grill and serve

  1. Place on a grill over a clear fire.

  2. Turn occasionally until cooked, basting with butter each time you turn them.

  3. Once cooked, place on a hot dish and pour sauce over them.

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. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Salmon + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Salmon + tomatotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,439 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

  5. Butter + tomatotop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,918 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Forms the main body of the dish, cooking to a flaky texture over the fire.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, and helps the surface brown while basting.

The step that matters

Turning and basting the salmon. Turning the slices occasionally cooks them evenly without drying the surface, and basting with butter adds moisture and helps the outside brown.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, butter, pepper):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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