Name: Salmon and Ravioli with Lemon-Garlic Butter
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 package (8 Or 9 Oz Package) Refrigerated Cheese Ravioli; 1 Lemon; 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil; 1 pound Wild Alaskan King Salmon Filets; 8 ounces, weight Salt And Pepper, to taste; 3 teaspoons Baby Spinach Leaves; 2 Tablespoons Minced Garlic

Why it works: Spinach and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,435 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Salmon and Ravioli with Lemon-Garlic Butter

Serves 4

Prep10 min

Cook15 min

Ingredients

1 package (8 Or 9 Oz Package) Refrigerated Cheese Ravioli
1 Lemon
2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
1 pound Wild Alaskan King Salmon Filets
8 ounces, weight Salt And Pepper, to taste
3 teaspoons Baby Spinach Leaves
2 Tablespoons Minced Garlic

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

469Calories

29 gProtein

36 gFat

8 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Salmon	100g cooked	208
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Cheese	1 oz (28g) cheddar	113
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Ravioli	not in our table	0

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

By tastykitchen. 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.

Spinach + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,435 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Olive + spinachtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,971 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Lemon + spinachtop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,109 recipes

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

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, olive, salmon, pepper, spinach, garlic):

Avocadofits better
Limefits about as well
Lemonthe original
Cherryfits less well

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

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