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Salt & Pepper Salmon with Chilli Dipping Sauce

Bring your salmon supper to life with this spicy and speedy recipe

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Salt & Pepper Salmon with Chilli Dipping Sauce

Why it works: Sesame and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 984 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Salt & Pepper Salmon with Chilli Dipping Sauce

Serves 4

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

649Calories
26 gProtein
27 gFat
66 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Salmon100g cooked208
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3

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. Sesame + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together984 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Sesame + shallottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together77 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Peas + shallottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together173 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Peas + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,434 recipes

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

  5. Rice + shallottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, sesame, sugar, rice, rice wine, vinegar, shallot):

  1. Peanutfits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, sesame, sugar, rice, rice wine, vinegar, shallot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.