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Smoked Trout and Apple Salad with Polenta Croutons

Golden polenta croutons flavored with Parmigiano-Reggiano add sweet crunch to this elegant salad of delicate flaked trout and crisp sliced apples. You can try other smoked fish in place of the trout, such as sturgeon or whitefish. Serve as a first course at your next dinner party.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Smoked Trout and Apple Salad with Polenta Croutons

Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Smoked Trout and Apple Salad with Polenta Croutons

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

553Calories
15 gProtein
43 gFat
32 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Grapeseed Oil1 tbsp (14g)120
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Troutnot 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 williamssonoma. 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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  3. Walnut + chivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together119 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + chivetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Cheese + appletop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together294 recipes

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

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, cheese, walnut, lemon, pepper, chive):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, cheese, walnut, lemon, pepper, chive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.