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Grilled Mustard Salmon with Butter Bean Crush

A simple and tasty way to serve salmon fillets, these creamy beans with lemon and dill make a great alternative to potatoes

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Grilled Mustard Salmon with Butter Bean Crush

Why it works: Dill and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 976 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Grilled Mustard Salmon with Butter Bean Crush

Serves 2

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

500Calories
21 gProtein
38 gFat
17 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Salmon100g cooked208
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Beannot in our table0

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

By bbcgoodfood. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Dill + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together976 recipes

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

  2. Mustard + dilltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together560 recipes

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

  3. Mustard + beanstop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

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

  4. Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Dill + beanstop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together90 recipes

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

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

Swap the beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mustard, sugar, dill, salmon, butter, lemon, vinegar):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Chickpeafits about as well
  3. Beansthe original
  4. Almondfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against mustard, sugar, dill, salmon, butter, lemon, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.