Why it works: Salmon and shrimp work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 819 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓
To Boil Salmon
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Clean the salmon carefully.
Fill a pot with enough warm water to cover the fish.
Add a handful of salt to the water.
Cook and serve
Boil the salmon gently and remove it from the water as soon as it is done.
Serve with shrimp or anchovy 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.
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.
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Salmon + shrimptop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together819 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
- Is the main ingredient, cooked whole in gently simmering water.
The step that matters
Remove the salmon as soon as it is done. Proteins in fish tighten and dry out when overcooked, so leaving the salmon in hot water past doneness makes it firm and dry.
“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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