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BLT and Poached Egg Salad

The classic French salad of frisée, chewy unsmoked bacon and a runny poached egg has been made kid-friendly here with sweet cherry tomatoes and butter lettuce. Don’t cook the bacon too long; you want it to be a bit chewy rather than crunchy. To incorporate the bread element of a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, top the salad with croutons.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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BLT and Poached Egg Salad

Why it works: Mustard and shallot 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 ↓

BLT and Poached Egg Salad

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

525Calories
13 gProtein
34 gFat
45 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
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. Mustard + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together859 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Shallot + cherry tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Mustard + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Olive + cherry tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together24 recipes

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

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

Swap the cherry tomato

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

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

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