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Smoked Duck and Pluot Salad

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Smoked Duck and Pluot Salad

Why it works: Wasabi and horseradish share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Smoked Duck and Pluot Salad

Makes 8 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

632Calories
21 gProtein
55 gFat
12 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Duck100g cooked with skin337
Peanut Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Wasabinot in our table0
Horseradishnot in our table0
Roasted Peanutnot 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 epicurious. 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. Wasabi + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Shallot + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together376 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Shallot + wasabitop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Rice + peanuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together670 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Rice + wasabitop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, vinegar, shallot, wasabi, horseradish, peanut oil, peanut):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, vinegar, shallot, wasabi, horseradish, peanut oil, peanut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.