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Poached Salmon Ballotine with Dill, Cucumber, Cauliflower and Wasabi and Horseradish Sauce

You can get ahead with this flavour-packed cold poached salmon recipe – freeze the cucumber ribbons at least a day in advance and prepare the sauce the day before you serve it. Serve with a glass of the finest sauvignon blanc.

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Why it works: Wasabi and sauce work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 45 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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

  1. Wasabi + saucetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Dill + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together976 recipes

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

  3. Wasabi + horseradishtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Cucumber + cauliflowertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together584 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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