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French Lentil Salad with Goat Cheese

"Great side dish. French lentils (also called puy lentils) have a wonderful earthy flavor. You can't substitute regular green/brown lentils. They are expensive but usually affordable at your local food co-op. Goat cheese has a creamier texture than feta. I like to add grape tomatoes."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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French Lentil Salad with Goat Cheese

Why it works: Lentils and chive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

French Lentil Salad with Goat Cheese

4 servings
Prep20 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

505Calories
39 gProtein
26 gFat
24 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Green Lentilnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0

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

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lentils + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Garlic + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Garlic + lentilstop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together633 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Olive + lentilstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together727 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the lentils

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sherry, vinegar, olive, garlic, chicken, chive, goat cheese):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Chickpeafits about as well
  4. Lentilsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sherry, vinegar, olive, garlic, chicken, chive, goat cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.