Name: Grilled Corn and Edamame Succotash Salad
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 5 ears corn, shucked; 1/2 yellow onion, peeled; 1 red bell pepper, stemmed and seeded; 1 jalapeno pepper; 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided; salt and ground black pepper to taste; 1 cup frozen shelled edamame (green soybeans); 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar; 2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil, or to taste

Why it works: Olive and soybean work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 90 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Grilled Corn and Edamame Succotash Salad

8 servings

Prep10 min

Cook20 min

Ingredients

5 ears corn, shucked
1/2 yellow onion, peeled
1 red bell pepper, stemmed and seeded
1 jalapeno pepper
3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
salt and ground black pepper to taste
1 cup frozen shelled edamame (green soybeans)
1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil, or to taste

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

409Calories

18 gProtein

21 gFat

45 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Edamame	1/2 cup (78g) shelled	120
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Corn	1/2 cup kernels (82g)	77
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Basil	5 leaves fresh (2.5g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Soybean	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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.

Olive + soybeantop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together90 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Corn + soybeantop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together22 recipes

Shared aroma: butanoic acid ethyl ester (sweet).
Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together29,779 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Corn + jalapenotop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together494 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Onion + soybeantop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together93 recipes

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

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

Swap the jalapeno

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, onion, pepper, olive, soybean, white wine, vinegar):

Garlicfits better
Thymefits better
Basilfits better
Jalapenothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, onion, pepper, olive, soybean, white wine, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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