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Goat Cheese Salmon

"This recipe for salmon is so simple and delicious, it's crazy! This is great for any weeknight dinner, yet will impress your guests, as well. Serve with oven roasted herbed potatoes or jasmine rice. Enjoy!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Salmon and goat cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

  2. Season the salmon fillets on both sides with salt and pepper and place them skin-side down on the baking sheet.

  3. In a small bowl, stir the herbed goat cheese with the Dijon mustard mayonnaise blend until smooth, then season lightly with salt and pepper to taste.

  4. Spread the goat cheese mixture evenly over the top of each salmon fillet.

  5. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, until the topping is lightly browned and the salmon is opaque and flakes easily, or reaches 145°F (63°C) in the thickest part.

  6. Let the salmon rest for 2 minutes before serving.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Salmon + goat cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Mustard + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,427 recipes

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

  3. Goat cheese + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together466 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Goat cheese + mustardtop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together76 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Salmon + mustardtop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together839 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mustard

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

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, goat cheese, pepper. 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).