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Warm Salmon & Jersey Royal Salad

This dish is great warm or cold, as a starter or a main, and is perfect for a picnic.

By jamieoliver · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Warm Salmon & Jersey Royal Salad

Why it works: Lemon and dill match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 976 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Warm Salmon & Jersey Royal Salad

Serves 4

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

511Calories
25 gProtein
27 gFat
43 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Salmon100g cooked208
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By jamieoliver. 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 + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together976 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,823 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Dill + basiltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together154 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

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

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

  5. Potato + dilltop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together423 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 potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, salmon, lemon, olive, dill, basil):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Cucumberfits better
  4. Potatothe original

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