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Smoked Salmon Fish Cakes

These simple fishcakes are ready in a flash and a great way to use up any leftover mashed potato.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Dill and sunflower share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 55 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Smoked Salmon Fish Cakes

Makes 4 large fishcakes, or 6 smaller fishcakes
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1057Calories
52 gProtein
28 gFat
146 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Smoked Salmon100g cooked208
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Capers1 tbsp (9g) drained2
Saucenot in our table0
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0

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

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Dill + sunflowertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Capers + dilltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together117 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

  4. Capers + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Potato + sunflowertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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 (egg, sauce, salmon, capers, dill, milk, sunflower):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sauce, salmon, capers, dill, milk, sunflower. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.