Why it works: Fish and fish sauce work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 150 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Salmon Patties
Ingredients
Directions
Remove the shells from the cooked fish.
Mix the fish with your choice of fish sauce.
Form the mixture into patties.
Serve cold.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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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.
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Fish + fish saucetop 22% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together150 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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