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Salmon & Crisp Prosciutto Salad

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By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Salmon and prosciutto work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and 16 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: egg, 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. Salmon + prosciuttotop 21% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Watercress + caperstop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together60 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Potato + oniontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,019 recipes

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

  4. Watercress + spinachtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Potato + watercresstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together170 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, potato, watercress, spinach, olive, prosciutto, capers):

  1. Chivebetter flavor fit
  2. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  3. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, potato, watercress, spinach, olive, prosciutto, capers. 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).