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Salmon with Green Lentil Ragout

Tiny, dark green Le Puy lentils are wonderful with salmon. A full-flavored chicken stock takes the place of wine as the base that ties together the ingredients in this refined, yet easy to make, dish. The lentils can be made ahead and reheated.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Salmon with Green Lentil Ragout

Why it works: Lentils and shallot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Salmon with Green Lentil Ragout

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

691Calories
56 gProtein
30 gFat
46 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 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
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Green Lentilnot in our table0
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 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. Lentils + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Carrot + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Lentils + carrottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together505 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Carrot + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

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

Swap the lentils

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, shallot, carrot, potato, pepper, canola oil, salmon):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Chickpeafits about as well
  4. Lentilsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, shallot, carrot, potato, pepper, canola oil, salmon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.