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Beetroot & Vodka Cured Salmon

A make-ahead starter for grown-ups with vodka soaked salmon served with a caper and dill cream

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Beetroot & Vodka Cured Salmon

Why it works: Beetroot and watercress match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 143 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Beetroot & Vodka Cured Salmon

Serves 6

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

321Calories
22 gProtein
19 gFat
15 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 12 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Salmon100g cooked208
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Watercress1 cup (34g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Capers1 tbsp (9g) drained2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Beetrootnot in our table0
Coriandernot in our table0
Seednot in our table0
Vodkanot 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. Beetroot + watercresstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together143 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Beetroot + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together145 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Coriander + dilltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together183 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Dill + watercresstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Coriander + watercresstop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together78 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the coriander

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, beetroot, sugar, dill, vodka, watercress, cream):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Corianderthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, beetroot, sugar, dill, vodka, watercress, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.