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Smoked Trout, Watercress & Beetroot Salad

This quick and simple salad is pepped up with the flavour of watercress

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Smoked Trout, Watercress & Beetroot Salad

Why it works: Watercress and horseradish share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 66 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Smoked Trout, Watercress & Beetroot Salad

Serves 4
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

129Calories
1 gProtein
14 gFat
1 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 7 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Watercress1 cup (34g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Beetrootnot in our table0
Troutnot in our table0
Horseradishnot 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. Watercress + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together66 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Mustard + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Beetroot + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Beetroot + watercresstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together143 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Mustard + watercresstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together293 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the beetroot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mustard, olive, vinegar, watercress, horseradish):

  1. Lettucefits about as well
  2. Shallotfits about as well
  3. Beetrootthe original
  4. Broccolifits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against mustard, olive, vinegar, watercress, horseradish. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.