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Hot Smoked Salmon with Fennel Salad & Lemon Mayo

Flake ready-prepared fish over peppery watercress, cooling cucumber and crunchy fennel for a healthy, no-cook lunch

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Hot Smoked Salmon with Fennel Salad & Lemon Mayo

Why it works: Dill and fennel match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122 recipes. Both carry 4-methoxybenzaldehyde, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

Hot Smoked Salmon with Fennel Salad & Lemon Mayo

Serves 2

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

471Calories
30 gProtein
32 gFat
15 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Smoked Salmon100g cooked208
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Fennel Bulb1/2 bulb (87g)27
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Watercress1 cup (34g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3

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 + fenneltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  2. Lemon + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together976 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + fenneltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together723 recipes

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

  4. Dill + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together530 recipes

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

  5. Cucumber + watercresstop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together140 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, dill, fennel, white wine, vinegar, olive, watercress):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Horseradishfits about as well
  3. Mustardfits about as well
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, dill, fennel, white wine, vinegar, olive, watercress. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.