Name: Whole Poached Salmon with Cucumber 'scales'
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 1 h
Yield: Serves 8-10
Ingredients: 1 x 2.5kg/5lb 6oz whole salmon; 1 lemon; 2 tsp black peppercorns; 2 bay leaves; 2 cucumbers; a few handfuls salad leaves; , for piping mayonnaise

Why it works: Lemon and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,067 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Whole Poached Salmon with Cucumber 'scales'

Serves 8-10

Prep30 min

Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

322Calories

28 gProtein

19 gFat

10 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Salmon	100g cooked	208
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Cucumber	1/2 cup sliced (52g)	16
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Bay Leaf	1 leaf (0.6g)	2
Salad	not in our table	0

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.

Lemon + cucumbertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,067 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Salmon + cucumbertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together513 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Salmon + lemontop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,918 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, cucumber):

Avocadofits better
Pumpkinfits about as well
Limefits about as well
Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, cucumber. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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