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Salmon with Salsa Verde

A delicious and fresh Mediterranean baked fish dish with herby green sauce, olives and lemon

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Salmon with Salsa Verde

Why it works: Mustard and capers match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 624 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Salmon with Salsa Verde

Serves 4
Prep15 min
Cook12 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

666Calories
30 gProtein
37 gFat
56 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Salmon100g cooked208
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Pine1 oz (28g)191
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Olive1 large (4g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Capers1 tbsp (9g) drained2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Peppermintnot 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. Mustard + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together624 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chive + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together245 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Dill + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together669 recipes

    Shared aroma: p-mentha-1,3,8-triene (camphor, herbal).

  4. Parsley + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,550 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Chive + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together587 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (dill, mint, parsley, chive, mustard, capers, pine):

  1. Lentilsfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Pistachiofits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against dill, mint, parsley, chive, mustard, capers, pine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.