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Chopped Kale Salad with Edamame, Carrot and Avocado

A colorful chopped kale salad bursting with Asian flavors, including ginger, cilantro, Thai basil and soy. This salad is vegan and gluten free, so it would make a great potluck dish.

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Chopped Kale Salad with Edamame, Carrot and Avocado

Why it works: Kale and shallot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 42 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Chopped Kale Salad with Edamame, Carrot and Avocado

Serves 4
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

762Calories
23 gProtein
55 gFat
54 gCarbs

Counts 17 of 18 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 17 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Edamame1/2 cup (78g) shelled120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
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 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. Kale + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Kale + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Avocado + shallottop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together77 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Avocado + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Peas + shallottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together173 recipes

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

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

Swap the thai basil

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (kale, peas, carrot, pepper, avocado, shallot, olive):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Thai basilthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against kale, peas, carrot, pepper, avocado, shallot, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.