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Lighter Tuna Salad with Radishes and Dried Cherries

Tuna salad doesn’t have to be ordinary or boring. This recipe for Lighter Tuna Salad with Radishes and Dried Cherries makes things interesting with crunch and flavor—and it’s on the lighter side of traditional tuna salad.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Lighter Tuna Salad with Radishes and Dried Cherries

Why it works: Dill and sunflower share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 55 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Lighter Tuna Salad with Radishes and Dried Cherries

Serves 4
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

692Calories
52 gProtein
34 gFat
47 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Salmon100g cooked208
Sunflower1 oz (28g) hulled165
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Seednot 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. Dill + sunflowertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Dill + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,630 recipes

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

  3. Dill + radishtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Radish + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together323 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetal (cream, earthy).

  5. Pepper + sunflowertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together568 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 radish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yogurt, dill, onion, pepper, sunflower):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Radishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against yogurt, dill, onion, pepper, sunflower. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.