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Broiled Salmon Steaks

Salmon steaks cooked on a grill and seasoned with butter and coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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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 Steaks

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Ensure your grill is clean and preheated.

  2. Prepare a clear fire that is not too hot.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the salmon steaks until they are light brown.

  2. Season with butter and coarse sea salt before serving.

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. 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 steaks
Main protein that cooks through and turns light brown under direct heat.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the finished fish.

The step that matters

Broil the salmon steaks until they are light brown. Fish steaks are thin and lean, so direct heat from a fire that is not too hot browns the surface while the inside cooks gently. Too much heat dries the flesh and burns the outside before the centre is cooked through.

“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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