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Frozen Cranberry Salad

"An alternative to traditional cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving, and much more delicious! Almost tastes like it should be dessert, and not a side dish!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Frozen Cranberry Salad

Why it works: Cranberry and walnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 51 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Frozen Cranberry Salad

10 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

467Calories
4 gProtein
30 gFat
50 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cranberry1 cup raw (100g)46
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Saucenot 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. Cranberry + walnuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Cranberry + pineappletop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together92 recipes

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Cream cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Swap the cranberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, butter, sugar, sauce, pineapple, walnut, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Cranberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, butter, sugar, sauce, pineapple, walnut, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.