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Greek Lentil Salad

"This is a delicious salad or side dish that may be kept for up to 3 days in the refrigerator, if covered. Just moisten with additional salad dressing when ready to use."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Greek Lentil Salad

Why it works: Lentils and cucumber share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 61 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Greek Lentil Salad

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

310Calories
19 gProtein
10 gFat
39 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Lentil1/2 cup cooked (99g)115
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Salad Dressingnot 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 + cucumbertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cucumber + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,405 recipes

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

  3. Lentils + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together463 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Lentils + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,221 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Cucumber + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,050 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

Swap the lentils

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (feta cheese, cucumber, tomato, onion):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against feta cheese, cucumber, tomato, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.