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Beetroot-cured Salmon, Deep-fried Oyster, Beetroot Salad and Smoked Mackerel Pâté

Allow two days for this home-cured fish. Beetroot has a natural affinity with oily fish, and the deep-fried oysters add extra glamour.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 27 ingredients
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Why it works: Beetroot and salmon 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 10
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, fish, shellfish (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. Beetroot + salmontop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together144 recipes

    Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).

  2. Fennel + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together132 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Tarragon + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together884 recipes

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

  4. Fennel + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together723 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + lemontop 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

Flavor stand-ins for the fennel

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beetroot, tarragon, sugar, salmon, pepper, cream cheese, lemon):

  1. Dillbetter flavor fit
  2. Fennelthe original
  3. Parsleyabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Celeryabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against beetroot, tarragon, sugar, salmon, pepper, cream cheese, lemon. 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).