Name: Spiced Salmon & Tomato & Mint Salad
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 2 skinless salmon fillets; 2 tbsp natural yogurt; 2 tsp hot Madras curry powder; 10 cherry tomatoes , halved; 1 shallot , thinly sliced; ½ lemon , juiced; 100g spinach , cooked in a little butter and seasoned; small handful mint leaves

Why it works: Shallot and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 198 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Spiced Salmon & Tomato & Mint Salad

Serves 2

Prep20 min

Cook10 min

Ingredients

2 skinless salmon fillets
2 tbsp natural yogurt
2 tsp hot Madras curry powder
10 cherry tomatoes , halved
1 shallot , thinly sliced
½ lemon , juiced
100g spinach , cooked in a little butter and seasoned
small handful mint leaves

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

554Calories

42 gProtein

26 gFat

41 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Salmon	100g cooked	208
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Cherry	1 cup (138g)	87
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Turmeric	1 tsp ground (3g)	9
Shallot	1 tbsp minced (10g)	7
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Peppermint	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.

Shallot + spinachtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together198 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Lemon + minttop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,998 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Shallot + lemontop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,523 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Lemon + spinachtop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,109 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Cherry tomato + shallottop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, yogurt, shallot, lemon, spinach, butter, mint):

Limefits better
Avocadofits better
Mangofits better
Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, yogurt, shallot, lemon, spinach, butter, mint. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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