Name: Broiled Salmon
Ingredients: salmon, sliced 1 to 1.5 inches thick; coarse sea salt; clarified butter or oil

Broiled Salmon

Broiled salmon slices seasoned with coarse sea salt and cooked over a brisk grill, served with Maitre d'Hotel or anchovy butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients

Why it works: Salmon and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,481 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Broiled Salmon

Ingredients

salmon, sliced 1 to 1.5 inches thick
coarse sea salt
clarified butter or oil

Directions

Prepare

Preheat the grill to a brisk heat.
Sprinkle the salmon slices with coarse sea salt.
Roll the salmon in clarified butter or oil.

Grill and serve

Grill the salmon for about 25 minutes.
Serve with Maitre d'Hotel or anchovy butter as a 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.

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.

Salmon + buttertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,481 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon: Forms the main body of the dish, cooking through to a flaky texture.
Clarified butter or oil: Coats the salmon to add richness and help prevent it from drying out on the grill.

“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.