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Californian and Scottish Creamy Avocado and Smoked Salmon Pâté

A creamy avocado and smoked salmon pâté served in avocado skins on a green salad.

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Why it works: White wine and lemon balm work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and 1 recipes mention both. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

Directions

Prepare

  1. Scoop out the avocado flesh carefully, reserving the intact skins.

Make the pâté

  1. Put all the ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.

  2. Spoon the mixture back into the avocado skins.

Garnish and serve

  1. Garnish with parsley.

  2. Serve in 4 individual dishes on top of the prepared green salad and wedge of lemon.

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Explore the science

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. White wine + lemon balmtop 21% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. White wine + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,764 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  3. Lemon balm + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. White wine + garlictop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,938 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Avocado + salmontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together183 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Avocados
Provide the creamy base and fat that give the pâté its smooth, rich texture.
Hard boiled eggs
Add body and a firm, savoury richness to the blended mixture.
Smoked salmon
Supplies the smoky, salty flavour that defines the pâté.
Double cream
Adds fat and moisture, loosening the blend and making it silkier.
White wine
Adds acidity and aromatic brightness that cut through the rich fats.

The step that matters

Blend until smooth. Blending too briefly leaves lumps of egg or salmon, while over-blending can warm and loosen the mixture. Blend in short bursts, scraping the sides, until the texture is uniformly smooth and spreadable.

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon balm

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (avocado, egg, salmon, white wine, garlic, cream, lemon):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Dillbetter flavor fit
  3. Tarragonbetter flavor fit
  4. Lemon balmthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against avocado, egg, salmon, white wine, garlic, cream, lemon. 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).

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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