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Salmon, Pumpernickel, Beetroot and Mouli Pickles

Put aside a day to make this dish of three ways with salmon served with pickled vegetables and pumpernickel crisps.

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Why it works: Salmon and beetroot work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and 144 recipes mention both. Both carry eugenol, which smells clove, spicy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

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. Salmon + beetroottop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together144 recipes

    Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).

  2. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,632 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Lemon + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,289 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,491 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

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

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