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Blackberries, Blue Cheese and Black Forest Ham Salad

A colorful and delicious summertime salad served with a quick an easy-to-make blue cheese dressing.

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Why it works: Ham and blue cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and 1 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, which smells cocoa, roasted. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, soy (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By tastykitchen. 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. Ham + blue cheesetop 30% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

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

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

  3. Carrot + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,555 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Carrot + cucumbertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,214 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Carrot + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,350 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, ham, blue cheese, milk, lemon, pepper):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, ham, blue cheese, milk, lemon, pepper. 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).