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Crab Salad with Endive

When buying endive, look for firm, fat, crisp heads (usually about 6 inches long) with tight, unblemished white leaves ending in yellow tips. Green tips indicate that the endive is not fresh. The cut end should look fresh, with no browning.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Crab Salad with Endive

Why it works: Shallot and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 450 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Crab Salad with Endive

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

232Calories
26 gProtein
6 gFat
20 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Fennel Bulb1/2 bulb (87g)27
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
White Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Endivenot 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. Shallot + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together450 recipes

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

  2. Chive + endivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together61 recipes

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

  3. Shallot + endivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

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

  4. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  5. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

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

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fennel, shallot, chive, parsley, cream, lemon, endive):

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fennel, shallot, chive, parsley, cream, lemon, endive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.