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Fennel and Mandarin Salad

"This is a refreshing change from your usual lettuce salads. Fennel is excellent for your digestion too!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Mandarin orange and olive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 77 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

2 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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

  1. Trim the fennel bulb, remove the tough core, and dice the bulb finely.

  2. Drain the mandarin orange segments, reserving nothing, and place them in a mixing bowl with the diced fennel.

  3. In a small bowl, whisk together the olive oil and white wine vinegar until combined.

  4. Pour the dressing over the fennel and mandarin segments and toss gently to coat.

  5. Season with salt and ground black pepper to taste, toss again, and let sit for 5 minutes before serving.

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. Mandarin orange + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together77 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Mandarin orange + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together49 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Fennel + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,216 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Fennel + mandarin orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4 recipes

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

  5. Fennel + white winetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together290 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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