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Salmon with Vegetables in Fennel Seed Butter Sauce Recipe

This salmon recipe is easy to prepare. It’s also beautiful so if you need something to impress guests this dish will do it for you and keep you out of the kitchen...

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Why it works: Salmon and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,472 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By chow. 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 + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,472 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  2. Lemon + fenneltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together723 recipes

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

  3. Carrot + fenneltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together330 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Carrot + leektop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,310 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. White wine + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, white wine, clam, lemon, leek, watercress, butter):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Shallotbetter flavor fit
  3. Chivebetter flavor fit
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, white wine, clam, lemon, leek, watercress, butter. 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).