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Green Pea Salad with Cheese

"A simple, tasty salad you can make anytime. Colorful and tasty! You can use green peppers instead of the red, if you prefer."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 16,001 recipes mention both. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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

  1. Pat the thawed peas dry with paper towels so the salad does not turn watery.

  2. In a large bowl, stir together the mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste.

  3. Add the diced red bell pepper, diced celery and chopped sweet pickles to the bowl and stir until evenly coated.

  4. Add the thawed green peas and cubed Cheddar cheese and fold gently so the cheese stays in pieces.

  5. Taste and adjust the salt and pepper.

  6. Line a serving dish or individual plates with the lettuce leaves.

  7. Spoon the pea salad onto the lettuce and serve right away, or cover and chill briefly before serving if you prefer it cold.

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. Pepper + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16,001 recipes

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

  2. Peas + lettucetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,293 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Pepper + lettucetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,037 recipes

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

  5. Celery + peastop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, celery, peas, cheddar cheese):

  1. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, celery, peas, cheddar cheese. 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).