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Warm Spinach Salad with Bacon, Mushrooms & Hard-Boiled Eggs

A wonderful spinach salad recipe with great ingredients and a warm, sweet and tangy dressing.

By browneyedbaker · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Warm Spinach Salad with Bacon, Mushrooms & Hard-Boiled Eggs

Why it works: Spinach and mushroom work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 778 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Warm Spinach Salad with Bacon, Mushrooms & Hard-Boiled Eggs

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

261Calories
15 gProtein
9 gFat
32 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Waternot 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 browneyedbaker. 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. Spinach + mushroomtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together778 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  2. Spinach + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,336 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Sugar + ketchuptop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Mushroom + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Onion + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,226 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (spinach, mushroom, egg, sugar, ketchup, vinegar):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against spinach, mushroom, egg, sugar, ketchup, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.