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Salmon Canapés

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Goat cheese and salmon share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 8 servings

Ingredients

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

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By epicurious. 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. Goat cheese + salmontop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9 recipes

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

  2. Salmon + chivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together343 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Sriracha + salmontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together25 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + chivetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,122 recipes

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

  5. Goat cheese + chivetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together70 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

Flavor stand-ins for the sriracha

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (goat cheese, lemon, salmon, chive):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  3. Tarragonbetter flavor fit
  4. Srirachathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against goat cheese, lemon, salmon, chive. 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).