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Salmon, Avocado & Potato Salad with Lime & Chilli Mayo

This delicious dish for two takes just 20 minutes to make - a great mid-week meal

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 424 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

Contains: egg, 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. Potato + limetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together424 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Lime + coriandertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,536 recipes

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

  3. Avocado + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Avocado + coriandertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,094 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Potato + oniontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,019 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, avocado, lime, coriander, salmon):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Cucumberbetter flavor fit
  3. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, avocado, lime, coriander, salmon. 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).