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Sweet and Tangy Broccoli Salad

"This broccoli salad will make your picnic a hit. Everyone loves it and will come back for seconds and thirds."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Sweet and Tangy Broccoli Salad

Why it works: Broccoli and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,294 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Sweet and Tangy Broccoli Salad

8 servings
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

340Calories
15 gProtein
10 gFat
52 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
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. Broccoli + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Broccoli + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  4. Raisin + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Broccoli + vinegartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,286 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (broccoli, onion, sugar, vinegar, pepper):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Raisinthe original

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