Skip to main content

Scrambled Egg Muffins with Smoked Salmon & Soured Cream

Serve this dish for a classy breakfast or brunch.

By jamieoliver · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓
Scrambled Egg Muffins with Smoked Salmon & Soured Cream

Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Scrambled Egg Muffins with Smoked Salmon & Soured Cream

Serves 4

Ingredients

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

458Calories
28 gProtein
35 gFat
6 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Smoked Salmon100g cooked208
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By jamieoliver. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Chive + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Pepper + chivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Salmon + chivetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together343 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the chive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, pepper, butter, salmon, cream, lemon):

  1. Asparagusfits about as well
  2. Spinachfits about as well
  3. Chivethe original
  4. Leekfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, pepper, butter, salmon, cream, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.