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Salmon Roe, Fried

Fried slices of salmon roe coated in egg and breadcrumbs, served with tartar sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Roe and salmon work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 176 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Salmon Roe, Fried

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the roe

  1. Boil the hard roe of salmon until cooked through.

  2. Place the roe on a sieve and let it cool.

  3. Cut the cooled roe into thin slices.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each slice in egg, then coat with bread crumbs.

  2. Fry the slices in hot fat until lightly browned on all sides.

Serve

  1. Garnish with parsley and serve with tartar sauce.

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. Roe + salmontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together176 recipes

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

  2. Roe + saucetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

  4. Roe + eggtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together243 recipes

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

  5. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 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

Hard roe of salmon
Forms the main body of the dish, becoming firm and flaky once cooked through.
Egg
Acts as a binder so the bread crumbs adhere evenly to each slice.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns when fried.

The step that matters

Frying the coated slices. Hot fat must be at a steady temperature so the crumb coating browns and crisps before the roe overheats. Fat that is too cool soaks into the coating and makes it greasy.

Swap the parsley

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against roe, salmon, egg, bread, sauce. 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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