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Salmon Fillet with Fresh Sorrel and Spinach Sauce

Sorrel has a sharp, crisp taste and is delicious with spinach. The base for the sauce can be made a day ahead; just reheat gently when ready to serve and add the spinach and sorrel.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Salmon and sorrel work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 38 recipes mention both. Both carry eugenol, which smells clove, spicy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Salmon + sorreltop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).

  2. Sorrel + spinachtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together204 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Pepper + spinachtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Flour + sorreltop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together231 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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