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Yvonne's Pea Salad

"This easy, no-cook, unique pea salad is a delicious snack or side dish. It tastes great with sandwiches, salads, or other cold dishes. Be careful, it's addictive! Serve it once and requests for it will never end."

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Yvonne's Pea Salad

Why it works: Onion and dill are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,639 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Yvonne's Pea Salad

6 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

332Calories
30 gProtein
11 gFat
29 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4

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. Onion + dilltop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,639 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Cheddar cheese + oniontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,669 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Peas + oniontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,460 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Peas + dilltop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Cheddar cheese + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,036 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

Swap the dill

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, cheddar cheese, cream, onion):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Celeryfits better
  3. Cuminfits better
  4. Dillthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, cheddar cheese, cream, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.