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Salmon, Coconut and Ginger Roulade with Lemon Butter Sauce, Served on a Bed of Spinach

This recipe was cooked by amateur chefs as part of the BBC's Step Up to the Plate television programme.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 22 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 170 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: milk, 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. Coconut + spinachtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together170 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Coriander + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,498 recipes

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

  3. Ginger + coriandertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,504 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Garlic + spinachtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,433 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  5. Ginger + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,154 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, coconut, ginger, coriander, lemon, vinegar, sugar):

  1. Cardamombetter flavor fit
  2. Turmericbetter flavor fit
  3. Peppermintbetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, coconut, ginger, coriander, lemon, vinegar, sugar. 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).