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Kara's Summer Salad

"This is a refreshing and fulfilling pasta salad that has enough protein to be eaten alone as a small meal. The ingredients are more unique and sometimes healthier than many other macaroni salad dishes out there. This was created in my own kitchen recently, enjoy!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Kara's Summer Salad

Why it works: Celery and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,012 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Kara's Summer Salad

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

697Calories
63 gProtein
38 gFat
29 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Edamame1/2 cup (78g) shelled120
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Celery Seed1 stalk (40g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Macaroninot 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. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

  2. Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Celery + sunflowertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together105 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Pepper + sunflowertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together568 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, chicken, egg, sunflower, cheddar cheese, onion):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Cuminfits about as well
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, chicken, egg, sunflower, cheddar cheese, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.