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Broiled Salmon Steak with New Potatoes

Broiled salmon steaks served with boiled new potatoes, parsley, lemon, and melted butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon 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 ↓

Broiled Salmon Steak with New Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the salmon

  1. Slice the salmon steaks and sever the bone in the center with a sharp knife.

  2. Dredge the steaks with salt and pepper, then brush with olive oil or melted butter.

  3. Let the steaks sit until ready to cook.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the steaks in a hinged wire broiler for about 10 minutes.

  2. Boil the new potatoes.

  3. Cut the boiled potatoes into quarters lengthwise.

  4. Arrange the quartered potatoes around the salmon on a platter.

  5. Sprinkle chopped parsley over the salmon.

  6. Pour melted butter on top of the salmon.

  7. Squeeze lemon juice over the salmon.

  8. Garnish with parsley among the potatoes.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Olive + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,649 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon steaks
Provide the main protein, which firms and turns opaque as it cooks.
Olive oil or melted butter
Coats the surface so the fish browns under the broiler and stays moist.
New potatoes
Provide a starchy side that holds its shape after boiling and quartering.
Fresh butter
Adds richness and a rounded flavour to the finished salmon.
Lemon
Adds acidity that brightens the rich fish and butter.

The step that matters

Broil the steaks for about 10 minutes. Salmon moves from moist and tender to dry and chalky within a few minutes of overcooking. Watch for the flesh to turn opaque and flake easily, and remove it promptly once it does.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Chivefits about as well
  2. Shallotfits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, pepper, olive, parsley, lemon, butter. 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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