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Aromatic Steamed Salmon

Gordon Ramsay takes salmon fillets and produces a vibrant dish full of flavour and fragrance

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 24 ingredients
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Why it works: Cardamom and basil share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 17 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cardamom + basiltop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Star anise + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together312 recipes

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

  4. Cinnamon + cardamomtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,299 recipes

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

  5. Thyme + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (star anise, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, lemon, shallot, thyme):

  1. Fennelbetter flavor fit
  2. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  3. Allspicebetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against star anise, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, lemon, shallot, thyme. 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).