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Salmon with Potato Bread

Great breakfast or lunch. Served with a green buerre blanc and organic hen's egg

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato bread and flour share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Salmon with Potato Bread

Serves 4

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1542Calories
79 gProtein
55 gFat
175 gCarbs

Counts 16 of 17 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 16 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Anchovy100g210
Salmon100g cooked208
Potato Bread1 medium (173g) baked161
Mashed Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Watercress1 cup (34g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Capers1 tbsp (9g) drained2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saucenot 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. Potato bread + flourtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + shallottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,081 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Potato + shallottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together272 recipes

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

  4. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + shallottop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,898 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 potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato bread, flour, egg, pepper, butter, sauce, shallot):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Arrowrootfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato bread, flour, egg, pepper, butter, sauce, shallot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.