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Ruby's Spicy Red Salad

"This is a crunchy vegi salad inspired by Trishie's Chinese-Style Salad Dressing."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Ruby's Spicy Red Salad

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 ↓

Ruby's Spicy Red Salad

6 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

274Calories
8 gProtein
3 gFat
59 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Strawberry1 cup (152g)49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Red Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7

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. Cabbage + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,081 recipes

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

  3. Cabbage + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,001 recipes

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

  4. Onion + radishtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together323 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetal (cream, earthy).

  5. Jalapeno + radishtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cabbage, onion, pepper, sugar, jalapeno, radish, almond):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against cabbage, onion, pepper, sugar, jalapeno, radish, almond. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.