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Smoked Salmon Vodka Cream Sauce

"A rich and creamy sauce that will compliment your favorite pasta. Easy to double or triple if you need more than 2 servings worth. Serve with your favorite pasta."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Vodka and sauce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 72 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

2 servings

Ingredients

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

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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. Vodka + saucetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17,913 recipes

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

  4. Onion + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together20,622 recipes

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

  5. Salmon + creamtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,401 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, salmon, vodka, cream, tomato, sauce, pepper):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Cucumberabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, salmon, vodka, cream, tomato, sauce, 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).