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Coho Salmon with Sweet Potato Salad and Cinnamon Sauce Recipe

Coho salmon, also called silver salmon, is less prized and therefore less expensive than sockeye or king salmon. All the better for us, because it's delicious...

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Why it works: Sweet potato and oregano share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 44 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

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

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By chow. 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. Sweet potato + oreganotop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Orange + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Sweet potato + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together539 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Pepper + oreganotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Olive + oreganotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,288 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, salmon, olive, sweet potato, orange, pepper, shallot):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Chivebetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, salmon, olive, sweet potato, orange, pepper, shallot. 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).