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Salmon, Fennel & Herb Parcels

Spruce up your salmon fillets wih some fennel and steam to perfection with an easy foil bag

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Fennel and salmon work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 253 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

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

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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. Fennel + salmontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together253 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Fennel + rosemarytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together157 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Fennel + white winetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together290 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Rosemary + white winetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together412 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Salmon + white winetop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together586 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fennel, salmon, rosemary, white wine):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Orangebetter flavor fit
  3. Grapebetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fennel, salmon, rosemary, white wine. 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).