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Broiled Salmon

Broiled salmon slices seasoned with sweet oil, parsley, shallots, salt, pepper, butter, and capers, then broiled and served with melted butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and capers match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 405 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Broiled Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut several slices of fresh salmon.

  2. Soak the salmon slices for 1 hour in a mixture of sweet oil, chopped parsley, minced shallots, salt, and pepper.

  3. Wrap each slice in buttered paper with the seasoning.

Broil and serve

  1. Broil the wrapped slices on a grill until thoroughly cooked.

  2. Remove the paper and serve the salmon with melted butter and capers.

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. Shallot + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together405 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Parsley + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,550 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Parsley + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  4. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Shallot + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,898 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

Fresh salmon
Forms the main body of the dish, cooking into flaky, tender pieces.
Sweet oil
Carries the seasoning and keeps the salmon moist during soaking and broiling.
Shallots
Add a mild, sharp onion-like aroma that flavours the soaking mixture.
Butter
Adds richness and a silky mouthfeel, both in the wrapping paper and as melted butter.

The step that matters

Broil the wrapped slices until thoroughly cooked. Salmon dries out quickly once its proteins set, so watching the time closely keeps the flesh moist while it cooks through.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, shallot, pepper, butter, capers):

  1. Parsleythe original
  2. Tarragonfits about as well
  3. Dillfits less well
  4. Thymefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, shallot, pepper, butter, capers. 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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