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Purple Cabbage, Beet, and Apple Slaw

Use the large holes on a box grater or the grating disk on a food processor to make this quick slaw.

By bonappetit · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Purple Cabbage, Beet, and Apple Slaw

Why it works: Shallot and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,523 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Purple Cabbage, Beet, and Apple Slaw

4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

269Calories
7 gProtein
1 gFat
66 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Beet1/2 cup (85g)35
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By bonappetit. 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. Shallot + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,523 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. White wine + appletop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together372 recipes

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

  3. Shallot + cabbagetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. White wine + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Shallot + white winetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together881 recipes

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

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

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shallot, white wine, apple, lemon):

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Kalefits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shallot, white wine, apple, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.