Why it works: Salmon and rice work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 730 recipes. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
Pekin Salmon Balls
Ingredients
Directions
Pound the dried salmon until fine.
Mix the pounded salmon with the cooked rice.
Form the mixture into balls.
Heat oil in a pan and fry the balls until golden brown.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Salmon + ricetop 19% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together730 recipes
Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
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