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Dilly Tomato and Beet Salad

"Fresh dill goes great with tomatoes and beets. Such a refreshing salad for a hot summer evening. Add other vegetables, if you like."

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Why it works: Safflower and walnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 12 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Contains: tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Whisk together the safflower oil, walnut oil, olive oil, red wine vinegar, lemon juice and minced dill in a small bowl.

  2. Season the dressing with salt and pepper to taste and whisk again.

  3. Place the diced tomatoes, chopped celery, chopped green onion and chopped drained red beets in a large bowl.

  4. Pour about two-thirds of the dressing over the vegetables and toss gently to coat.

  5. Taste the salad and add more salt and pepper if needed.

  6. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes so the flavors blend, keeping the chilled salad cold until serving.

  7. Just before serving, toss again and drizzle with the remaining dressing.

By allrecipes. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Safflower + walnuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12 recipes

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

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Lemon + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together976 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

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

  5. Dill + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,630 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the safflower

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (walnut, olive, red wine, vinegar, lemon, dill, pepper):

  1. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  4. Safflowerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against walnut, olive, red wine, vinegar, lemon, dill, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).