Name: Salmon Rarebit
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 7 min
Yield: Easily doubled
Ingredients: slice granary bread (or a bread of your choice - we used German-style pumpernickel); ½ x 212g can Wild Alaskan Pacific salmon , drained and flaked; 1-2 spring onions , thinly sliced; 2 tbsp cottage cheese; 1 tsp grated horseradish (optional); 1 tbsp coarsley grated Red Leicester cheese; 40g watercress and spinach salad, to serve

Why it works: Horseradish and watercress share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 66 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Salmon Rarebit

Easily doubled

Prep5 min

Cook7 min

Ingredients

slice granary bread (or a bread of your choice - we used German-style pumpernickel)
½ x 212g can Wild Alaskan Pacific salmon , drained and flaked
1-2 spring onions , thinly sliced
2 tbsp cottage cheese
1 tsp grated horseradish (optional)
1 tbsp coarsley grated Red Leicester cheese
40g watercress and spinach salad, to serve

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

929Calories

54 gProtein

28 gFat

110 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Salmon	100g cooked	208
Cheese	1 oz (28g) cheddar	113
Cottage Cheese	1/2 cup (113g) 2%	98
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Watercress	1 cup (34g)	4
Horseradish	not in our table	0
Salad	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.

Horseradish + watercresstop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together66 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Watercress + spinachtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together97 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Cottage cheese + cheesetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together126 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
Horseradish + spinachtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together39 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Onion + horseradishtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,784 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the horseradish

The recipe marks horseradish as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, salmon, onion, cottage cheese, cheese, watercress, spinach):

Chivefits better
Lettucefits better
Mustardfits about as well
Horseradishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, salmon, onion, cottage cheese, cheese, watercress, spinach. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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