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Wedge Salad with Buttermilk Dressing and Blue Cheese

Buttermilk and low-fat Greek yogurt lend body to this tangy salad dressing without the added fat of mayonnaise. A bit of crumbled blue cheese adds richness, but omit it if you wish.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Buttermilk and blue cheese work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 42 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

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. Buttermilk + blue cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together42 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

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

  3. Chive + lettucetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together261 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Buttermilk + saucetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together129 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Yogurt + blue cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together100 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yogurt, buttermilk, sauce, pepper, chive, lettuce, blue cheese):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Limeabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Cherryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against yogurt, buttermilk, sauce, pepper, chive, lettuce, blue cheese. 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).