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Sesame Salmon Subs with Cucumber Pickle

Give salmon a new dimension with a golden crust of healthy seasame

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sesame and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 364 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C) and line a baking tray with parchment.

  2. Pour the beaten egg into a shallow dish and spread the sesame seeds on a plate.

  3. Dip each salmon fillet in the egg, let the excess drip off, then press it into the sesame seeds to coat both sides.

  4. Place the coated fillets on the tray and bake for 12 minutes, until the flesh is opaque and flakes easily or reaches 145°F (63°C) in the thickest part.

  5. Split the sub rolls and warm them in the oven for the last 3 minutes.

  6. Sprinkle the cooked salmon with light soy sauce to taste.

  7. Fill each roll with a salmon fillet, a portion of the spinach and watercress salad, and some quick cucumber pickle.

By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Sesame + cucumbertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together364 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Sesame + spinachtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together203 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  3. Spinach + watercresstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Spinach + cucumbertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together355 recipes

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

  5. Sesame + watercresstop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the spinach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sesame, salmon, egg, watercress, cucumber, sauce):

  1. Chivebetter flavor fit
  2. Welsh onionabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Asparagusabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Spinachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sesame, salmon, egg, watercress, cucumber, sauce. 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).