Name: Thai Spiced Fillet of Salmon
Yield: Serves 10
Ingredients: 1kg Tilda Original Pure Basmati Rice; 1 tbsp vegetable oil; 2 tbsp thai green curry paste; 3 limes, juiced and zested; 10 x 200g salmon fillet, fresh, scaled and pin boned; 1 red pepper, sweet, diced; 1 green pepper, sweet, diced; 1 yellow pepper, sweet, diced; 2 bunches fresh flat leaf parsley, washed and chopped; t tbsp ginger, fresh, grated; 1 tbsp toasted sesame oil; 2 x 400ml coconut milk, tinned; 3 red chillies, deseeded and sliced; 3 aubergines, sliced, roasted and dressed with fresh lime juice

Why it works: Lime and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,621 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

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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.

Lime + gingertop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,621 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,491 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Lime + parsleytop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together547 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Lime + coconuttop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together934 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (basmati rice, lime, salmon, pepper, ginger, sesame, coconut):

Corianderfits better
Turmericfits better
Cardamomfits better
Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against basmati rice, lime, salmon, pepper, ginger, sesame, coconut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Coconut	1/2 cup shredded (40g)	283
Salmon	100g cooked	208
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Sesame	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Ginger	1 tsp grated fresh (2g)	2
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1

Thai Spiced Fillet of Salmon