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Spinach Salad with Warm Bacon-Mustard Dressing

"A classic steakhouse-style spinach salad with the absolute best warm bacon-mustard dressing I've ever had! Looks and tastes like a lot of work, but can be prepared in no time! This salad can easily be converted to a main dish salad by adding strips of grilled chicken breast."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Spinach Salad with Warm Bacon-Mustard Dressing

Why it works: Spinach and garlic 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 Salad with Warm Bacon-Mustard Dressing

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

464Calories
21 gProtein
31 gFat
28 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Swiss Cheese1 oz (28g)108
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Spinach + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,435 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Spinach + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together198 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Mushroom + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Spinach + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together352 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (spinach, egg, mushroom, swiss cheese, olive, shallot, garlic):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against spinach, egg, mushroom, swiss cheese, olive, shallot, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.