Name: Salmon En Croute
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: For the sauce; 1 1/2 tablespoon of sunflower or rapeseed oil for frying; 1 small onion, finely diced; medium sized bunch of dill; 1 small garlic clove, finely chopped or minced; 250ml double cream; four biggish fillets of salmon, get the most natural looking colour; 1 packet of ready-rolled puff pastry; 1 egg, lightly beaten

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Salmon En Croute

Serves 6

Ingredients

For the sauce
1 1/2 tablespoon of sunflower or rapeseed oil for frying
1 small onion, finely diced
medium sized bunch of dill
1 small garlic clove, finely chopped or minced
250ml double cream
four biggish fillets of salmon, get the most natural looking colour
1 packet of ready-rolled puff pastry
1 egg, lightly beaten

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

561Calories

34 gProtein

38 gFat

20 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Salmon	100g cooked	208
Sunflower	1 oz (28g) hulled	165
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Dill	5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried	4
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Sauce	not in our table	0
Rapeseed Oil	not in our table	0
Pastry	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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Sunflower + dilltop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together55 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Dill + garlictop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together943 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Sunflower + garlictop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together651 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,787 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the dill

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, sunflower, onion, garlic, cream, salmon, egg):

Capersfits better
Tarragonfits about as well
Parsleyfits about as well
Dillthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, sunflower, onion, garlic, cream, salmon, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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