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Maille® Vegetable Dijon Dressing

"Asparagus, sugar snap peas, beans, and other vegetables are cooked until just crisp-tender, then tossed in homemade honey-Dijon dressing."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Maille® Vegetable Dijon Dressing

Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Maille® Vegetable Dijon Dressing

4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

563Calories
9 gProtein
29 gFat
77 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 14 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Asparagus6 spears (90g)27
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Beannot 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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Mustard + asparagustop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together213 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + asparagustop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together704 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Olive + asparagustop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,096 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

Swap the asparagus

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mustard, olive, lemon, honey, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Broccolifits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Asparagusthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mustard, olive, lemon, honey, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.