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Honey Coconut Salmon

"This salmon is my husband's favorite. Don't let the total time fool you -- very easy to make. This recipe is great served with mashed potatoes. You can taste the sauce before marinating to check the flavor. This gives a nice sweet taste to the salmon."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Honey and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 515 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

Contains: 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 (205°C). Place the salmon fillets in a baking dish large enough to hold them in a single layer.

  2. In a small saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter. Stir in the honey and brown sugar and cook for about 3 minutes, until smooth and bubbling.

  3. Spoon about half of the honey butter over the salmon fillets. Bake for 10 minutes.

  4. Sprinkle the flaked coconut over the fillets and drizzle the remaining honey butter on top. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until the thickest part reaches 145°F (63°C) and the flesh flakes easily with a fork.

  5. If the coconut is not yet golden, broil on high for 1 to 2 minutes, watching closely so it does not burn.

  6. Let the fish rest for 3 minutes, then serve with the pan juices spooned over the top.

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. Honey + coconuttop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together515 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  2. Butter + coconuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + honeytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  4. Butter + salmontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,472 recipes

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

  5. Butter + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together98,096 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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