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Teriyaki Salmon with Sriracha Cream Drizzle

Salmon marinated in homemade teriyaki sauce, baked to perfection and drizzled with a to-die-for, sweet, tangy and spicy Sriracha sauce!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Sriracha and salmon share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 25 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 3
Prep45 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

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

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

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

  2. Honey + yogurttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together659 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Ginger + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,402 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Garlic + srirachatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together270 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Ginger + honeytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, sugar, ginger, honey, yogurt, sriracha, condensed milk):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Cardamombetter flavor fit
  3. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, sugar, ginger, honey, yogurt, sriracha, condensed milk. 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).