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Baked Salmon with Tropical Rice

"This baked salmon preparation is an appealing low calorie main dish. Seasoned with brown sugar, cilantro and lemon-pepper, and paired with white rice flavored with mangos, cilantro, and lemon zest, it makes a satisfying meal."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Baked Salmon with Tropical Rice

Why it works: Coriander and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,498 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Baked Salmon with Tropical Rice

4 servings
Prep25 min
Cook12 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

677Calories
26 gProtein
26 gFat
86 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
Salmon100g cooked208
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Mango1 cup diced (165g)99
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemon Peeljuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Coriandernot 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 allrecipes. 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. Coriander + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,498 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Coriander + mangotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together420 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Coriander + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,949 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Pepper + mangotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together471 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the mango

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (coriander, sugar, lemon, pepper, salmon, butter, rice):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Mangothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against coriander, sugar, lemon, pepper, salmon, butter, rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.