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Summer Squash Salad with Lemon Citronette

Raw, ribboned yellow and green squash tossed with an herbed lemon vinaigrette, pine nuts and feta cheese. Buy the freshest, smallest squash you can find (local/organic will have the best flavor). Salting the squash helps draw out excess moisture, so allow 20 minutes for that step.

By cookieandkate · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Summer Squash Salad with Lemon Citronette

Why it works: Thyme and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Summer Squash Salad with Lemon Citronette

Serves 4
Prep25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

641Calories
19 gProtein
57 gFat
22 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 15 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Tarragon1 tsp dried (0.5g)2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Peppermintnot 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 cookieandkate. 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. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Pine + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together480 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pine, feta cheese, lemon, garlic, thyme, parsley, olive):

  1. Basilfits better
  2. Rosemaryfits better
  3. Oreganofits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pine, feta cheese, lemon, garlic, thyme, parsley, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.