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Why it works: Salmon and harissa work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 17 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 4 servings

Ingredients

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

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Salmon + harissatop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Chickpea + turmerictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together233 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Quinoa + chickpeatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together37 recipes

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

  4. Chickpea + harissatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. White wine + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,495 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (white wine, salmon, onion, thyme, quinoa, chickpea, turmeric):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  3. Limebetter flavor fit
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against white wine, salmon, onion, thyme, quinoa, chickpea, turmeric. 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).