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Salmon & Broccoli Cakes with Watercress, Avocado & Tomato Salad

Bump up the good-for-you factor with these vegetable-packed salmon fishcakes, served with a fresh salad

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Salmon & Broccoli Cakes with Watercress, Avocado & Tomato Salad

Why it works: Broccoli and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 705 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Salmon & Broccoli Cakes with Watercress, Avocado & Tomato Salad

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

796Calories
35 gProtein
37 gFat
93 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Salmon100g cooked208
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Watercress1 cup (34g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Sunflower Oilnot 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. Broccoli + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together705 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

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

  3. Sunflower + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together50 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Dill + sunflowertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Dill + mustardtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together560 recipes

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

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 (broccoli, salmon, lemon, dill, sunflower, mustard, avocado):

  1. Lettucefits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Horseradishfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against broccoli, salmon, lemon, dill, sunflower, mustard, avocado. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.