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Deliciously Sweet Salad with Maple, Nuts, Seeds, Blueberries, and Goat Cheese

"My mom began making this salad a few years ago and, as soon as I tried it, I just had to get the recipe. This is my version, but can be varied in many different ways because it's all about the dressing! So simple, yet so delicious that you are sure to get requests for the recipe whenever you make it! You can use pecans, almonds, or pine nuts in place of the walnuts."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Deliciously Sweet Salad with Maple, Nuts, Seeds, Blueberries, and Goat Cheese

Why it works: Feta cheese and goat cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Deliciously Sweet Salad with Maple, Nuts, Seeds, Blueberries, and Goat Cheese

4 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

733Calories
21 gProtein
49 gFat
60 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Grapeseed Oil1 tbsp (14g)120
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Blueberry1 cup (148g)84
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Romaine Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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. Feta cheese + goat cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Lettuce + walnuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together491 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Sunflower + walnuttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together129 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Lettuce + sunflowertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Walnut + goat cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, walnut, feta cheese, goat cheese, vinegar, maple syrup):

  1. Cucumberfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Mustardfits about as well
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, walnut, feta cheese, goat cheese, vinegar, maple syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.