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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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Why it works: Arugula and goat cheese work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 65 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

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Serves 6.

Ingredients

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

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Arugula + goat cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together65 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Mushroom + sherrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,176 recipes

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

  3. Olive + goat cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together557 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  4. Shallot + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together842 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Mushroom + shallottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,960 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the shallot

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

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Broccoliabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, pepper, olive, sherry, vinegar, mustard, arugula. 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).