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Carrot and Jicama Salad with Lime Vinaigrette

Carrots and jicama, both of them crunchy and sweet, are a winning combination in this tangy salad. Jicama is a large bulbous root with thin brown skin and a nutty taste. Serve this salad as an accompaniment to a smoked turkey sandwich or grilled chicken, shrimp or fish. It has only about 100 calories per serving and lots of dietary fiber.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Carrot and Jicama Salad with Lime Vinaigrette

Why it works: Lime and jicama share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 80 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Carrot and Jicama Salad with Lime Vinaigrette

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

222Calories
3 gProtein
15 gFat
24 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Jicama1 cup (120g)46
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Lime + jicamatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together80 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cumin + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,216 recipes

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

  3. Cumin + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together777 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  4. Cumin + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,082 recipes

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

  5. Cumin + jicamatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cumin, lime, canola oil, garlic, jicama):

  1. Welsh onionfits better
  2. Broccolifits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cumin, lime, canola oil, garlic, jicama. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.