Name: Poached Wild Salmon with Peas and Morels
Yield: Makes 2 Servings
Ingredients: 2 6-8-ounce center-cut wild salmon fillets (each about 1 1/2" thick); 1 cup dry white wine; 2 tablespoons kosher salt plus more for seasoning; 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter; 4 ounces fresh morels; sliced, stemmed shiitake; or other mushrooms; 1/2 cup shelled fresh (or frozen, thawed) peas; 1/2 cup heavy cream; Freshly ground black pepper; 2 tablespoons minced fresh chives or 2 pea tendrils

Why it works: Shiitake and chive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 37 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Poached Wild Salmon with Peas and Morels

Makes 2 Servings

Ingredients

2 6-8-ounce center-cut wild salmon fillets (each about 1 1/2" thick)
1 cup dry white wine
2 tablespoons kosher salt plus more for seasoning
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
4 ounces fresh morels; sliced, stemmed shiitake; or other mushrooms
1/2 cup shelled fresh (or frozen, thawed) peas
1/2 cup heavy cream
Freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons minced fresh chives or 2 pea tendrils

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

504Calories

29 gProtein

31 gFat

23 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 10 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Salmon	100g cooked	208
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Pea	1/2 cup (72g)	62
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Shiitake	1/2 cup (73g)	34
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Chives	1 tbsp (3g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By epicurious. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Shiitake + chivetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together37 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
White wine + buttertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,083 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Shiitake + peastop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together42 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Peas + chivetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together227 recipes

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

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, white wine, butter, shiitake, cream, pepper, chive):

Sesamefits better
Chestnutfits better
Beansfits better
Peasthe original

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

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