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Wild Salmon, Beetroot and Sauce Vierge

This simple fish course looks as fabulous as it tastes, with deep pink beetroot and grassy sauce vierge taking centre stage.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,289 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Wild Salmon, Beetroot and Sauce Vierge

Serves 4
Prep2 hr
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

638Calories
55 gProtein
36 gFat
25 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 15 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Salmon100g cooked208
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
White Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Beetrootnot in our table0
Coriandernot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By bbcfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Lemon + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,289 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Beetroot + limetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Lemon + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

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

  4. Lime + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Chicken + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,888 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

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

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beetroot, chicken, cream, lemon, lime, olive, salmon):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Corianderfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beetroot, chicken, cream, lemon, lime, olive, salmon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.