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Glenda's Mandarin Orange Salad

"This sweet and crunchy salad is very kid friendly! I first tried this when I visited my family in Newfoundland, and managed to get a copy of the recipe. Make lots, there won't be any left over. Any kind of lettuce can be used as well as spinach. Raisins can also be added."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and mandarin orange 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

6 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

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

  • Dressing

Directions

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

  1. In a bowl, whisk together the minced onion, white sugar, dry mustard, celery seed, black pepper, distilled white vinegar and olive oil for about 3 minutes, until the sugar dissolves.

  2. Refrigerate the dressing while you prepare the salad, for at least 10 minutes so the flavors blend.

  3. Place the chopped romaine lettuce in a large salad bowl.

  4. Add the drained mandarin oranges and sliced fresh mushrooms over the lettuce.

  5. Sprinkle the slivered almonds and crumbled cooked bacon over the top of the salad.

  6. Just before serving, pour the chilled dressing over the salad and toss gently to coat. Serve immediately.

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. Olive + mandarin orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together77 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Mustard + lettucetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,356 recipes

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

  3. Mustard + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,160 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Celery + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16,001 recipes

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

  5. Celery + lettucetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,033 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, mustard, celery, pepper, vinegar, olive, lettuce):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Broccolibetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, mustard, celery, pepper, vinegar, olive, lettuce. 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).