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Salmon in Creamy Silk Sauce

"A delicious, elegant and easy way to impress your company! Thick, rich and creamy silk sauce has a wonderful lightly sweet flavor!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Salmon in Creamy Silk Sauce

Why it works: Rosemary and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,340 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Salmon in Creamy Silk Sauce

4 filets
Prep10 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

548Calories
23 gProtein
44 gFat
17 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Salmon100g cooked208
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Peppermintnot 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.

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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. Rosemary + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,340 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + rosemarytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together845 recipes

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

  4. Thyme + clovetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, rosemary, thyme, salmon, butter, olive, garlic):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Oreganofits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, rosemary, thyme, salmon, butter, olive, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.