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Confit Salmon and Smoked Salmon Scotch Egg with Beetroot and Horseradish

A whimsical dish of silky salmon, crisp mini-Scotch eggs and pickled beetroot that’s also a feast for the eyes.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 28 ingredients
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Why it works: Beetroot and horseradish match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 209 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep2 hr
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Contains: egg, 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. Beetroot + horseradishtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lemon + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together976 recipes

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

  3. Beetroot + dilltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together145 recipes

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

  4. Dill + horseradishtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together133 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. White wine + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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