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Salmon, Broiled

Broiled salmon slices topped with butter and garnished with parsley, tomatoes, and prawns.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Salmon, Broiled

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Preheat the grill to high heat.

  2. Rub the salmon slices with melted butter, then sprinkle with salt and pepper.

Cook and serve

  1. Place the salmon on the grill and broil for 2-3 minutes on each side until cooked through.

  2. Transfer the salmon to a hot dish and top each piece with a pat of fresh butter.

  3. Garnish with parsley, tomatoes, and prawns.

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Parsley + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,398 recipes

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

  4. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. 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
Forms the main protein; broiling sets its flesh while keeping the centre moist.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, helping the surface stay tender under high heat.

The step that matters

Broil each side until cooked through. Salmon dries out quickly under high heat, and thick pieces can stay raw in the centre or overcook at the edges. Checking doneness at the stated time on each side helps keep the flesh moist and evenly cooked.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Tomatothe original

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