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Beet and Stilton Salad with Orange Vinaigrette

Baked beets have a deeper, richer taste than boiled beets. If you like, you can cook them a day or two ahead and refrigerate, still wrapped in foil, until you are ready to peel and slice them. Stilton, a sharply flavored English blue cheese, balances the natural sweetness of the beets, but other blue-veined cheeses, such as Gorgonzola, Roquefort or Saga blue, can be substituted.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Beet and Stilton Salad with Orange Vinaigrette

Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Beet and Stilton Salad with Orange Vinaigrette

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

468Calories
13 gProtein
24 gFat
55 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Orange Juice1 medium (131g)62
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Beet1/2 cup (85g)35
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saladnot 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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Dill + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,630 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

  5. Orange + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, red wine, vinegar, dill, garlic, pepper, onion):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, red wine, vinegar, dill, garlic, pepper, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.