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Spinach Crepes with Smoked Salmon and Lemony Greek Yogurt Sauce

Crepes laced with spinach, scallions and dill are smeared with lemony Greek yogurt and topped with sliced smoked salmon.

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Why it works: Almond and yogurt work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 683 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep20 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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

  1. Almond + yogurttop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together683 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Spinach + quinoatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together79 recipes

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

  3. Milk + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,354 recipes

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

  4. Quinoa + flourtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together99 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Almond + flourtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the dill

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (spinach, egg, almond, milk, quinoa, flour, rice):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  3. Turmericbetter flavor fit
  4. Dillthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against spinach, egg, almond, milk, quinoa, flour, rice. 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).