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Roasted Vegetable, Arugula and Avocado Salad

By whatsgabycooking · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Butternut squash and cherry tomato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Butternut squash + cherry tomatotop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Olive + avocadotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,376 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Mushroom + cheddar cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together705 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  4. Mushroom + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,057 recipes

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

  5. Olive + cheddar cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cauliflower

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (arugula, butternut squash, mushroom, olive, avocado, cherry tomato, cheddar cheese):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Cauliflowerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against arugula, butternut squash, mushroom, olive, avocado, cherry tomato, cheddar cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).