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Delicious Spinach Salad

"My take on baby spinach leaves, dressed with crumbly feta cheese, veggies, and a light dash of red wine vinegar, lemon juice, and olive oil."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Delicious Spinach Salad

Why it works: Spinach and pine match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 181 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Delicious Spinach Salad

4 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

664Calories
22 gProtein
46 gFat
47 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Black Bean1/2 cup canned (120g) drained114
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Olive1 large (4g)4
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. Spinach + pinetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together181 recipes

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

  2. Spinach + beanstop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together365 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Carrot + beanstop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,443 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Olive + pinetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Olive + beanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,470 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (spinach, carrot, onion, olive, feta cheese, beans, pine):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against spinach, carrot, onion, olive, feta cheese, beans, pine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.