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Red Cabbage-Asparagus Salad with Tahini Dressing

"Crispy, colorful, tangy and delicious. This salad is quick to throw together and is super healthy!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Red Cabbage-Asparagus Salad with Tahini Dressing

Why it works: Cabbage and radish match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 106 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Red Cabbage-Asparagus Salad with Tahini Dressing

4 servings
Prep30 min
Cook3 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

621Calories
23 gProtein
41 gFat
53 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine1 oz (28g)191
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Tahini1 tbsp (15g)89
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Asparagus6 spears (90g)27
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Waternot 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. Cabbage + radishtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together106 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Garlic + radishtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together199 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Asparagus + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together704 recipes

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

  4. Asparagus + radishtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Asparagus + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together606 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the tahini

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (asparagus, lemon, clove, garlic, sugar, cabbage, radish):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Tahinithe original

Fit is the average pairing score against asparagus, lemon, clove, garlic, sugar, cabbage, radish. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.