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Strawberry Salad with Shallot-Honey Vinaigrette

"This quick and easy salad presents well for dinner guests, but is simple enough to make on a weeknight too."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Strawberry Salad with Shallot-Honey Vinaigrette

Why it works: Lemon and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,973 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Strawberry Salad with Shallot-Honey Vinaigrette

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook2 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

319Calories
3 gProtein
15 gFat
50 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Strawberry1 cup (152g)49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saladnot 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.

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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. Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

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

  2. Shallot + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,476 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Thyme + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

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

  5. Thyme + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,948 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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 (lemon, honey, shallot, thyme, pepper, olive, sugar):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Pistachiofits better
  4. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, honey, shallot, thyme, pepper, olive, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.