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Curried Salmon

A salmon dish simmered in a curry-flavored sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,922 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Curried Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Brown the onion in the olive oil.

  2. Stir in the flour mixed with the curry powder until well blended.

  3. Add the hot water and salt, then bring to a boil.

Finish and serve

  1. Turn in the salmon, which should be drained and flaked.

  2. Heat until very hot, then add the lemon juice and serve.

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.

Explore the science

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. Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Olive + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

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

  3. Salmon + olivetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,942 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Flour + lemontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Onion + flourtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32,460 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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 flaky texture of the dish.
Flour
Thickens the hot water into a smooth, lightly bodied sauce.
Curry powder
Supplies the warm, spiced aroma that defines the dish.
Olive oil
Carries the onion's flavor and helps it brown in the pan.
Onion
Adds savory sweetness and aromatic base once browned.

The step that matters

Stir the flour and curry powder until well blended. Flour clumps when it meets hot liquid, which leaves lumps in the sauce. Mixing it thoroughly with the curry powder first, then adding the water, helps it disperse evenly and thicken smoothly.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Kalefits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, olive, flour, lemon. 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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