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Warm Escarole, Egg and Bacon Salad

This is a classic French bistro dish, perfect for brunch. The eggs are poached until the whites are firm. The yolks are just barely cooked so that, when broken, they run over the escarole leaves and combine with the vinaigrette. Frisée, the curly-leafed relative of escarole, may be substituted for the escarole. Or you can use a mixture of the two. For a bit of spice, add some arugula.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Warm Escarole, Egg and Bacon Salad

Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Warm Escarole, Egg and Bacon Salad

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

261Calories
10 gProtein
22 gFat
6 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

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

  3. Red wine + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together575 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Olive + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,297 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  5. Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 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 lemon

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

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Cherryfits about as well
  4. Grapefits about as well

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