Skip to main content

Salmon and Fennel Salad

If the salmon fillet still has its skin, you don’t need to spend time removing it before you cook the salmon. The skin will protect the delicate flesh during steaming. After cooking, the salmon flesh will flake easily away from the skin, which can then be discarded.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓
Salmon and Fennel Salad

Why it works: Mustard and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 587 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Salmon and Fennel Salad

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

379Calories
22 gProtein
27 gFat
12 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
Fennel Bulb1/2 bulb (87g)27
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Champagnenot 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.

Explore the science

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. Mustard + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together587 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Lemon + fenneltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together723 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Chive + fenneltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together95 recipes

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

  5. Mustard + fenneltop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together292 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

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

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, pepper, lemon, champagne, chive, olive, fennel):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Cucumberfits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, pepper, lemon, champagne, chive, olive, fennel. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.