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Green Pea Salad

"This is a quickly prepared recipe, and is always juicy and crunchy at the same time. It is a healthy lunch, or used as a cold dinner salad for hot summer nights. Excellent for potlucks."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Green Pea Salad

Why it works: Water chestnut and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 205 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Green Pea Salad

6 to 7 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

248Calories
14 gProtein
6 gFat
38 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Waternot in our table0
Chestnutnot 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. Water chestnut + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together205 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Plum + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,480 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

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

  4. Peas + tomatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

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

  5. Peas + water chestnuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, water chestnut, tomato, onion, lemon):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, water chestnut, tomato, onion, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.