Name: Hot Smoked Salmon Wrap
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 1 tbsp hot horseradish sauce; 1 tbsp half-fat crème fraîche; 2 small flour tortillas; 2 small handfuls baby spinach leaves; 50g cooked beetroot , drained and cut into matchsticks; 1 small carrot , peeled and cut into matchsticks; 75g hot smoked salmon or trout, flaked

Why it works: Horseradish and beetroot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 209 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Hot Smoked Salmon Wrap

Serves 2

Ingredients

1 tbsp hot horseradish sauce
1 tbsp half-fat crème fraîche
2 small flour tortillas
2 small handfuls baby spinach leaves
50g cooked beetroot , drained and cut into matchsticks
1 small carrot , peeled and cut into matchsticks
75g hot smoked salmon or trout, flaked

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

835Calories

38 gProtein

18 gFat

126 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 9 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Smoked Salmon	100g cooked	208
Tortilla	1 medium flour (45g)	140
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Horseradish	not in our table	0
Sauce	not in our table	0
Beetroot	not in our table	0
Trout	not in our table	0

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.

Horseradish + beetroottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together209 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Spinach + beetroottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together280 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Beetroot + carrottop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together699 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Horseradish + spinachtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together39 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Spinach + carrottop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together870 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (horseradish, sauce, flour, spinach, beetroot, salmon):

Shallotfits better
Chivefits better
Lettucefits better
Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against horseradish, sauce, flour, spinach, beetroot, salmon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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