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Three Cheese Green Salad

"This is a great salad as a meal with grilled chicken or by itself. This has been a winner with our friends and family. Who can pass up a salad with three cheeses?"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Three Cheese Green Salad

Why it works: Swiss cheese and feta cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Three Cheese Green Salad

6 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

484Calories
26 gProtein
40 gFat
6 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Swiss Cheese1 oz (28g)108
Pecan1 half (4g)20
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Leafnot 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. Swiss cheese + feta cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Swiss cheese + parmesan cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together151 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Feta cheese + parmesan cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together94 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Lettuce + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

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

  5. Feta cheese + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,482 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 lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (swiss cheese, feta cheese, parmesan cheese, olive, vinegar, pepper):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against swiss cheese, feta cheese, parmesan cheese, olive, vinegar, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.