Name: Big City Salmon with Martini Sauce
Yield: makes 4 servings
Ingredients: 4 (6-ounce) salmon fillets; Salt and pepper; Chopped fresh parsley, as desired; 2 tablespoons olive oil (if sautéing); Martini Sauce; 1 tablespoon minced shallot; 1/4 cup gin; 1/4 cup dry vermouth; 1 teaspoon chopped whole juniper berries; 1 teaspoon dried or brined green peppercorns, optional; 1/4 cup heavy cream; 2 teaspoons butter; 6 pimiento-stuffed queen olives, sliced into rings; Fresh lemon juice; Salt and pepper

Why it works: Gin and vermouth share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 94 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. 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.

Gin + vermouthtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together94 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Parsley + shallottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,737 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Sauce + vermouthtop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together13 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Parsley + olivetop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,649 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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 (salmon, pepper, parsley, olive, sauce, gin, vermouth):

Shallotthe original
Capsicumfits about as well
Cucumberfits about as well
Tomatofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, pepper, parsley, olive, sauce, gin, vermouth. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Salmon	100g cooked	208
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Shallot	1 tbsp minced (10g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Olive	1 large (4g)	4
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Sauce	not in our table	0
Gin	not in our table	0
Vermouth	not in our table	0

Big City Salmon with Martini Sauce