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Steak Salad

"Interesting twist on the typical steak salad. Broiled sirloin on Romaine lettuce with roma tomatoes, mushrooms, walnuts, and blue cheese with a smoky dressing."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Steak Salad

Why it works: Lettuce and walnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 491 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Steak Salad

4 servings
Prep30 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

597Calories
39 gProtein
40 gFat
23 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 14 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Romaine Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Smokenot 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. Lettuce + walnuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together491 recipes

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

  2. Beef + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Plum + red winetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together107 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  4. Plum + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,480 recipes

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

  5. Lettuce + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,655 recipes

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

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 (beef, lettuce, plum, tomato, mushroom, blue cheese, red wine):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chickpeafits about as well
  3. Walnutthe original
  4. Peasfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, lettuce, plum, tomato, mushroom, blue cheese, red wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.