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Stir Fry of Green Peas with Grilled Salmon

An unusual Indian recipe, subtly spiced and healthy to boot - you could try it with chicken instead of salmon

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Stir Fry of Green Peas with Grilled Salmon

Why it works: Sunflower and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 194 recipes. Both carry beta-pinene, which smells pine, resin. The science ↓

Stir Fry of Green Peas with Grilled Salmon

Serves 4

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

871Calories
48 gProtein
42 gFat
78 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Salmon100g cooked208
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Seednot 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. Sunflower + coconuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together194 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).

  2. Sunflower + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together194 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Sunflower + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Cumin + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together972 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Cumin + coconuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together472 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, cumin, sugar, coconut, salmon, yogurt, potato):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, cumin, sugar, coconut, salmon, yogurt, potato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.