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Endive Salad with Persimmon and Pomegranate

There are two main types of persimmon, Fuyu and Hachiya. For this salad, use the sweeter Fuyus, which are still firm when ripe and can be cut very thinly. Hachiyas must be quite soft before they can be eaten, making them difficult to slice. Any salty or tangy cheese will be excellent in this salad; try using fresh goat cheese or ricotta salata in place of the feta.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pomegranate and persimmon share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 8 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (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. Pomegranate + persimmontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Pomegranate + pistachiotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Endive + chivetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together61 recipes

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

  4. Feta cheese + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,438 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Pistachio + nutstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together425 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the chive

The recipe marks chive as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (endive, pomegranate, persimmon, feta cheese, olive, pistachio, nuts):

  1. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  2. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  3. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  4. Chivethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against endive, pomegranate, persimmon, feta cheese, olive, pistachio, nuts. 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).