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Harvest Salad From Oikos®

"Crisp romaine topped with turkey, apples, nuts and a goat cheese and herb yogurt dressing."

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Why it works: Cider and apple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,042 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

12 cups
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (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. In a large bowl, whisk the Greek yogurt, cider vinegar, chopped parsley, and a pinch each of salt and cracked pepper until smooth to make the dressing.

  2. Place the shredded romaine in a very large serving bowl or on a platter.

  3. Add the sliced apple, julienned roasted turkey, dried cranberries, and toasted pecans to the romaine.

  4. Pour about half the yogurt dressing over the salad and toss gently to coat. Add more dressing to taste, reserving any extra for serving.

  5. Sprinkle the crumbled goat cheese over the top just before serving. Roasted turkey is already cooked, so it only needs to be at room temperature or chilled.

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. Cider + appletop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,042 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

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

  3. Cider + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together402 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).

  4. Yogurt + goat cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Yogurt + vinegartop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together955 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yogurt, goat cheese, cider, vinegar, pepper, apple, turkey):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Clovebetter flavor fit
  3. Peppermintbetter flavor fit
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against yogurt, goat cheese, cider, vinegar, pepper, apple, turkey. 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).