Skip to main content

Power Salad Recipe

A super duper salad, designed to keep you fit 'n healthy. Includes eggs, beetroot, peppers, sprouted beans, and lentils.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Horseradish and beetroot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 209 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Power Salad Recipe

2 people
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

753Calories
42 gProtein
40 gFat
65 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 14 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Lentil1/2 cup cooked (99g)115
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Tahini1 tbsp (15g)89
Rye1 slice (32g)83
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Horseradishnot in our table0
Beetrootnot in our table0
Beannot 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 lovefood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Horseradish + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Dill + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together976 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Dill + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together145 recipes

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

  4. Beetroot + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together215 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Dill + horseradishtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yogurt, dill, horseradish, lemon, egg, beetroot, pepper):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Beansthe original
  3. Walnutfits about as well
  4. Lentilsfits about as well

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