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Belgian Endive, Celery Root and Pear Salad with Hazelnut Vinaigrette

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Belgian Endive, Celery Root and Pear Salad with Hazelnut Vinaigrette

Why it works: Shallot and endive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 30 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Belgian Endive, Celery Root and Pear Salad with Hazelnut Vinaigrette

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

279Calories
2 gProtein
14 gFat
36 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 12 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Pear1 medium (178g)101
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Hazelnutnot in our table0
Endivenot in our table0
Radicchionot 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 + endivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

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

  2. Hazelnut + endivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Hazelnut + shallottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Endive + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together160 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the hazelnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sherry, wine, vinegar, shallot, pepper, endive, celery):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Hazelnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sherry, wine, vinegar, shallot, pepper, endive, celery. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.