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Herbed Garden Salad with Goat Cheese

This salad shows off the bright flavor of fresh greens and fragrant herbs. Mix different kinds of greens—like bitter curly endive and radicchio, spicy watercress and arugula, and mild butter lettuce and baby spinach. If using lettuces from your garden, show the kids how to harvest them, then have them rinse and dry the greens and the herbs and toss the salad together.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Herbed Garden Salad with Goat Cheese

Why it works: Tarragon and chervil match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 824 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Herbed Garden Salad with Goat Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

288Calories
7 gProtein
22 gFat
16 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Tarragon1 tsp dried (0.5g)2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saladnot in our table0
Chervilnot 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 williamssonoma. 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. Tarragon + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together824 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Chervil + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together370 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Parsley + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together669 recipes

    Shared aroma: p-mentha-1,3,8-triene (camphor, herbal).

  4. Tarragon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Tarragon + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together111 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

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

Swap the dill

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tarragon, parsley, chervil, chive, olive, pepper, sugar):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Fennelfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Dillthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tarragon, parsley, chervil, chive, olive, pepper, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.