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Salmon Fillets, Fried

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Salmon and oyster work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 672 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Salmon Fillets, Fried

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the salmon into neat fillets.

  2. Dip the fillets in beaten eggs, then coat with bread crumbs.

  3. Fry the fillets in hot fat until cooked through, about 10 to 15 minutes depending on thickness.

  4. Arrange the fillets in a circle on a serving platter.

  5. Serve with tartar sauce, ravigote sauce, aurora sauce, or Indian sauce.

  6. For variety, fill the center with oysters, prawns, or shrimps mixed in Dutch sauce.

  7. Serve additional sauce in a tureen.

  8. Optionally, serve without sauce and drizzle with strained lemon juice.

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. Salmon + oystertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together672 recipes

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

  2. Bread + oystertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,545 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Egg + oystertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,103 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Sauce + oystertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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, egg, bread, sauce, oyster):

  1. Pumpkinfits about as well
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Avocadofits about as well
  4. Plumfits less well

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

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