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Teriyaki Salmon with Cabbage Salad

This recipe is so simple to make and packs a lot punch flavourwise. Healthy, tasty, easy - it could be a new favourite

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Kale and cucumber share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 53 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Teriyaki Salmon with Cabbage Salad

Serves 4
Prep2 hr
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

696Calories
27 gProtein
27 gFat
71 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Salmon100g cooked208
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Sake1 oz (30ml)39
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Peppermintnot 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 bbcfood. 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. Kale + cucumbertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cucumber + minttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together884 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Salmon + cucumbertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together513 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Kale + minttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together23 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Sauce + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the kale

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice wine, sake, sauce, sugar, salmon, cucumber, mint):

  1. Welsh onionfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Kalethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice wine, sake, sauce, sugar, salmon, cucumber, mint. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.