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Beet Salad with Mushrooms, Goat Cheese and Arugula

For added texture, top this salad with garlic chips, which are easy to make: Place 1/4 cup thinly sliced garlic and 1/2 cup olive oil in a small sauté pan. Set over medium heat and cook, stirring occasionally, until the garlic is golden and crisp, about 10 minutes. Using a skimmer, transfer the garlic chips to a paper towel-lined plate and season with salt. If desired, reserve the garlic-flavored olive oil to use in salad dressings or cooking.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Beet Salad with Mushrooms, Goat Cheese and Arugula

Why it works: Shallot and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 859 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Beet Salad with Mushrooms, Goat Cheese and Arugula

Serves 6.

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

321Calories
11 gProtein
23 gFat
16 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Beet1/2 cup (85g)35
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Arugula1 cup (20g)5
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
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. Shallot + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together859 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Mushroom + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Mushroom + sherrytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,176 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-methylphenol (smoky, clove).

  4. Mushroom + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,571 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Vinegar + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the arugula

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, pepper, olive, shallot, sherry, vinegar, mustard):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Arugulathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, pepper, olive, shallot, sherry, vinegar, mustard. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.