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Salmon En Croute

If anyone can solve your cooking dilemma it's Gordon Ramsay. This recipe is an impressive and inexpensive fish main course

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 20 ingredients
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Salmon En Croute

Why it works: Rice and saffron work together. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 629 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Salmon En Croute

Serves 6

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1662Calories
67 gProtein
74 gFat
180 gCarbs

Counts 16 of 21 ingredients. The other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 16 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Salmon100g cooked208
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Mascarpone2 tbsp (28g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Tarragon1 tsp dried (0.5g)2
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Chestnutnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Saffronnot in our table0
Pastrynot in our table0
Chervilnot 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. Rice + saffrontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together629 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Mustard + chestnuttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together80 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Olive + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,994 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Olive + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,571 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

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

Swap the saffron

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, olive, mustard, chestnut, mushroom, butter, rice):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Garlicfits better
  4. Saffronthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, olive, mustard, chestnut, mushroom, butter, rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.