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Waldorf Brown Rice Salad

"Crisp apples, sweet raisins and brown rice -- a new twist to a traditional salad recipe."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Waldorf Brown Rice Salad

Why it works: Lemon and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,467 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Waldorf Brown Rice Salad

4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

597Calories
30 gProtein
10 gFat
99 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
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.

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. Lemon + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

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

  2. Celery + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Rice + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,169 recipes

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

  4. Apple + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,501 recipes

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

  5. Rice + walnuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together430 recipes

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

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 (rice, apple, lemon, celery, walnut, vanilla, yogurt):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Cranberryfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, apple, lemon, celery, walnut, vanilla, yogurt. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.