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Kale, Red Cabbage & Carrot Salad with Honey Mustard Vinaigrette

A fresh, nutritious and gorgeous salad with a tangy honey mustard vinaigrette.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Kale, Red Cabbage & Carrot Salad with Honey Mustard Vinaigrette

Why it works: Kale and avocado share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 54 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Kale, Red Cabbage & Carrot Salad with Honey Mustard Vinaigrette

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1108Calories
26 gProtein
57 gFat
133 gCarbs

Counts 16 of 17 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 16 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Saladnot 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 tastykitchen. 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. Kale + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Avocado + sunflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together50 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Carrot + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Kale + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Carrot + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together279 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (kale, cabbage, carrot, avocado, egg, clove, sunflower):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against kale, cabbage, carrot, avocado, egg, clove, sunflower. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.