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Watermelon and Sesame Seed Salad

"This salad is so refreshing and tastes quite differently to what you expect. Delicious! I like to serve with chicken breast."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Watermelon and Sesame Seed Salad

Why it works: Water chestnut and sesame share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 74 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Watermelon and Sesame Seed Salad

6 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

297Calories
4 gProtein
15 gFat
41 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
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Raspberry1 cup (123g)64
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Watermelon1 cup diced (152g)46
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Water Chestnutnot 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. Water chestnut + sesametop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together74 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Garlic + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Water chestnut + chivetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Sesame + chivetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together89 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Sesame + garlictop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,000 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (water chestnut, sesame, garlic, chive, vinegar, sugar, fish sauce):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against water chestnut, sesame, garlic, chive, vinegar, sugar, fish sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.