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French Goat's Cheese, Beetroot and Parsnip Salad Recipe

French goat's cheese log slice, roasted baby beetroot and parsnip salad from Sophie Wright

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsnip and beetroot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 143 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

4 people
Prep20 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Parsnip + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together143 recipes

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

  2. Beetroot + chardtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Parsnip + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together270 recipes

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

  4. Thyme + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,585 recipes

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

  5. Thyme + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,641 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 chard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, parsnip, beetroot, maple syrup, thyme, olive, pepper):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  4. Chardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, parsnip, beetroot, maple syrup, thyme, olive, pepper. 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).