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Gravlax with Hay Smoked Scallops, Sour Cucumber and Mustard Leaves

Home-cured smoked salmon is served with scallops cooked in hay and pickled cucumber.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 23 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and scallop work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and 14 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

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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. Mustard + scalloptop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Dill + cucumbertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together530 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Dill + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together560 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Mustard + cucumbertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Salmon + cucumbertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together509 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, sugar, dill, mustard, cucumber, scallop, butter):

  1. Capersbetter flavor fit
  2. Tarragonbetter flavor fit
  3. Celerybetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, sugar, dill, mustard, cucumber, scallop, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).