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Quinoa Salad with Apple, Chickpeas, Toasted Almonds & Apple Cider Vinaigrette

By cookincanuck · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Quinoa and chickpea share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 37 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4 as an entree

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By cookincanuck. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Quinoa + chickpeatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Chickpea + beanstop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together229 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Quinoa + beanstop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together96 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Almond + chickpeatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Apple + cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together292 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (quinoa, almond, chickpea, beans, apple, cheese, apple cider vinegar):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  3. Sweet potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against quinoa, almond, chickpea, beans, apple, cheese, apple cider vinegar. 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).