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Quick Poached Salmon with Dill Mustard Sauce

"This is an easy, elegant, wonderful salmon dish with a no-cook sauce. It really doesn't get much easier. I love it best on swelteringly hot summer days. Fresh steamed asparagus goes very well with this, and the sauce tastes good on it as well."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Quick Poached Salmon with Dill Mustard Sauce

Why it works: Mustard and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 859 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Quick Poached Salmon with Dill Mustard Sauce

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook12 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

460Calories
39 gProtein
14 gFat
39 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Salmon100g cooked208
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Waternot in our table0

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

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

  1. Mustard + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together859 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Lemon + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together976 recipes

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

  3. Mustard + dilltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together560 recipes

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

  4. Dill + shallottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Lemon + shallottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,523 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yogurt, honey, lemon, dill, salmon, white wine, shallot):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Horseradishfits about as well
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against yogurt, honey, lemon, dill, salmon, white wine, shallot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.