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Salmon with Coriander Dahl & Rice

Fresh and filling, good for you and cheap to make - this is a midweek meal that ticks all the boxes

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Salmon and coriander work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 683 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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 + coriandertop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together683 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Tomato + coriandertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,966 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Lentils + turmerictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together267 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Turmeric + coriandertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,252 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Chicken + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,027 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lentils

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, onion, tomato, turmeric, salmon, coriander, sunflower):

  1. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  2. Sesamebetter flavor fit
  3. Beansbetter flavor fit
  4. Lentilsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, onion, tomato, turmeric, salmon, coriander, sunflower. 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).