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Kale & Brussels Sprout Salad

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Kale & Brussels Sprout Salad

Why it works: Shallot and kale share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 42 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Kale & Brussels Sprout Salad

Makes 8 to 10 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

228Calories
6 gProtein
16 gFat
22 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Brussels Sprout1 cup (156g)56
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
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 epicurious. 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. Shallot + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Mustard + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together859 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Garlic + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together490 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Mustard + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

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

Swap the brussels sprouts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, mustard, shallot, garlic, clove, pepper, kale):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Broccolifits better
  3. Horseradishfits better
  4. Brussels sproutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, mustard, shallot, garlic, clove, pepper, kale. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.