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Spinach and Goat Cheese Salad with Beetroot Vinaigrette

"I tried this salad in Rehoboth Beach, DE and vowed to duplicate it! It is so addicting with the crunchy sugared walnuts and creamy goat cheese. The vinaigrette is to die for. I don't even care for beets! Great for holiday dinners. A must try!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Spinach and Goat Cheese Salad with Beetroot Vinaigrette

Why it works: Garlic and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,435 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Spinach and Goat Cheese Salad with Beetroot Vinaigrette

12 servings
Prep25 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

517Calories
40 gProtein
28 gFat
26 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Beet1/2 cup (85g)35
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Cidernot 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. Garlic + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,435 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Pepper + spinachtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Cider + vinegartop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,431 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).

  4. Walnut + spinachtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together221 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Chicken + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,850 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

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

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, cider, vinegar, chicken, garlic, pepper, spinach):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Cashew nutfits better
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cider, vinegar, chicken, garlic, pepper, spinach. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.