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Sorrel Soup with Salmon and Dill and Oatcakes

Use the freshest salmon you can find – left raw, it will very lightly cook in the residual heat of the hot soup.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 27 ingredients
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Why it works: Sorrel and dill share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 14 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Sorrel + dilltop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Leek + sorreltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together112 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Carrot + dilltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together321 recipes

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

  5. Thyme + dilltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together164 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, carrot, onion, leek, thyme, pepper, flour):

  1. Beansbetter flavor fit
  2. Lentilsbetter flavor fit
  3. Chickpeaabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against celery, carrot, onion, leek, thyme, pepper, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).