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Hot Smoked Salmon, Beetroot Salad and Horseradish Crème Fraîche

This easy salad requires only a little cooking, but tastes sensational. If you can't find fresh horseradish, you can add fresh dill to a jar of ready-made horseradish cream.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Hot Smoked Salmon, Beetroot Salad and Horseradish Crème Fraîche

Why it works: Beetroot and horseradish match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 209 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Hot Smoked Salmon, Beetroot Salad and Horseradish Crème Fraîche

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

347Calories
21 gProtein
27 gFat
4 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
Smoked Salmon100g cooked208
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Beetrootnot in our table0
Horseradishnot 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 bbcfood. 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 + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Beetroot + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together139 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Shallot + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together376 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

  5. Horseradish + dilltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beetroot, olive, vinegar, pepper, horseradish, dill, salmon):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Lettucefits about as well
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beetroot, olive, vinegar, pepper, horseradish, dill, salmon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.