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Sugar Snap Pea Salad II

"This dish incorporates a lot of what I love; crunchy sugar snap peas, assorted veggies, and a creamy dressing. A sweet and satisfying side dish!"

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Why it works: Sugar and carrot are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,211 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Pull the strings from the sugar snap peas and trim the ends, then cut each pea in half on the diagonal.

  2. Put the sugar snap peas, halved cherry tomatoes, grated carrots and chopped red onion in a large bowl and toss to combine.

  3. In a small bowl, stir together the mayonnaise, grated Parmesan cheese, dried oregano, dried parsley, dried rosemary, and the pinch of salt and pepper until smooth.

  4. Pour the dressing over the vegetables and toss until everything is evenly coated.

  5. Cover and chill for about 10 minutes so the flavors blend, then toss once more and serve.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sugar + carrottop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together4,211 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Oregano + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,184 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Carrot + oreganotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together535 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Peas + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,994 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, peas, carrot, onion, parmesan cheese, oregano, parsley):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Limebetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, peas, carrot, onion, parmesan cheese, oregano, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).