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Salmon Kedgeree

A savory rice dish with salmon, butter, cream, curry, and egg whites, finished with lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Salmon Kedgeree

Ingredients

Directions

Make the kedgeree

  1. In a saucepan, combine the shredded salmon and boiled rice.

  2. Add the butter, cream, salt, pepper, curry powder, and chopped egg whites.

  3. Stir over medium heat until heated through.

Finish and serve

  1. Pass the yolks of the hard boiled eggs through a sieve over the kedgeree.

  2. Garnish with lemon juice before serving.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Rice + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  5. Salmon + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,401 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Provides the main protein and flakes into the rice, giving the dish its body.
Boiled rice
Forms the bulk of the dish and soaks up the butter and cream for a moist texture.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, carrying the curry powder flavour through the rice.
Cream
Adds moisture and softness, helping the rice and salmon stay tender when heated.
Curry powder
Supplies the warm, aromatic spice flavour that defines the dish.
Hard boiled eggs
Chopped whites add soft texture and sieved yolks add richness as a topping.

The step that matters

Stir over medium heat until heated through. Gentle, even heat warms the salmon and rice without drying them out or scorching the butter and cream. Overheating can make the rice tough and the cream separate.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Avocadofits about as well
  4. Mangofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, rice, butter, cream, pepper, egg. 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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