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Strawberry Spinach Salad

A simple but decadent salad. Serve with chicken as a main course, or alone as the perfect complement to any meal!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Poppy seed and spinach share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 31 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Poppy seed + spinachtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together31 recipes

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

  2. Sesame + spinachtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together203 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  3. Sesame + poppy seedtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together106 recipes

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

  4. Sesame + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Olive + walnuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sesame, poppy seed, olive, vinegar, sauce, onion, spinach):

  1. Peanutbetter flavor fit
  2. Cashew nutbetter flavor fit
  3. Beansbetter flavor fit
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sesame, poppy seed, olive, vinegar, sauce, onion, spinach. 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).