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Salmon Omelet

A quick omelet made with canned salmon, eggs, butter, and garnished with parsley or lettuce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 28,563 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Salmon Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Drain the juice or oil from the can of salmon and place the salmon in a dish.

  2. Beat the eggs and mix them into the salmon.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat butter in a frying pan over low heat.

  2. Pour the salmon and egg mixture into the pan and cook for 10 minutes.

  3. Fold one half of the omelet over the other half and carefully remove it from the pan.

  4. Place the omelet on a platter and garnish with parsley or lettuce leaves.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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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. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Salmon + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Salmon + eggtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,485 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set when heated, binding the salmon and forming the omelet's structure.
Salmon
Provides the main filling and rich flavour, and is mixed into the egg.

The step that matters

Cooking the omelet over low heat. Eggs set gently at low heat, staying tender and moist. Higher heat toughens and dries the proteins and can scorch the butter before the middle sets.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Nutmegfits about as well
  4. Dillfits about as well

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

“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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