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Lemon Crusted Salmon with Herby New Potatoes & Green Beans

A simple way to serve salmon, packed full of clean summery Greek flavours

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Lemon Crusted Salmon with Herby New Potatoes & Green Beans

Why it works: Olive and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,458 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Lemon Crusted Salmon with Herby New Potatoes & Green Beans

Serves 4
Cook12 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

918Calories
44 gProtein
20 gFat
137 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Salmon100g cooked208
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Olive1 large (4g)4
Green Vegetablesnot 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. Olive + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Lemon + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Lemon + potatotop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, lemon, salmon, egg, olive):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Cucumberfits better
  4. Potatothe original

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