Why it works: Salmon and fish sauce work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 119 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Salmon Trout
Ingredients
Directions
Broil or fry the salmon trout as you would mackerel.
Serve with fish sauce.
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.
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Salmon + fish saucetop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together119 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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