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Zesty Garden Salad

"An excellent, refreshing salad discovered one hot summer day. If you're tired, hot, or just need a little spice in your life, it won't take more than fifteen minutes to create this classic pick-me-up."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Zesty Garden Salad

Why it works: Mustard and dill match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 560 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Zesty Garden Salad

1 salad
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

452Calories
25 gProtein
17 gFat
58 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Edamame1/2 cup (78g) shelled120
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Green Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Iceberg Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Soybeannot 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. Mustard + dilltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together560 recipes

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

  2. Mustard + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

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

  3. Corn + soybeantop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: butanoic acid ethyl ester (sweet).

  4. Onion + soybeantop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Dill + corntop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together69 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the dill

The recipe marks dill as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mustard, onion, cheddar cheese, corn, sugar, peas, soybean):

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

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