Name: Smoked Trout Salad
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 120g bag salad leaves (rocket, spinach and watercress is a good mix); 250g small new potatoes , boiled and halved; 8-10 radishes , trimmed and quartered; 175g cooked beetroot , drained and cut into wedges; 2 smoked trout fillets (125g pack); 1 tsp hot horseradish sauce; 2 tbsp half-fat crème fraîche; splash of milk

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 Salad

Serves 2

Ingredients

120g bag salad leaves (rocket, spinach and watercress is a good mix)
250g small new potatoes , boiled and halved
8-10 radishes , trimmed and quartered
175g cooked beetroot , drained and cut into wedges
2 smoked trout fillets (125g pack)
1 tsp hot horseradish sauce
2 tbsp half-fat crème fraîche
splash of milk

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

321Calories

14 gProtein

8 gFat

50 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 9 ingredients. The other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Watercress	1 cup (34g)	4
Salad	not in our table	0
Beetroot	not in our table	0
Trout	not in our table	0
Horseradish	not in our table	0
Sauce	not in our table	0

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.

Watercress + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together66 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Beetroot + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together209 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Watercress + beetroottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together143 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Spinach + beetroottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together280 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Spinach + watercresstop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together97 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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 (spinach, watercress, radish, beetroot, horseradish, sauce, milk):

Lettucefits better
Mustardfits better
Shallotfits better
Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against spinach, watercress, radish, beetroot, horseradish, sauce, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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