Name: Chopped Salad with Garlic and Honey Vinaigrette
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: ¼ cups FOR THE GARLIC AND HONEY VINAIGRETTE:; 4 Tablespoons White Wine Vinegar; 1 whole Honey; 1 head Shallot, Diced; 1 teaspoon Garlic, Roasted; ½ teaspoons Herbes De Provence; ½ teaspoons Kosher Salt; ½ cups Black Pepper; 10 ounces, weight Extra Virgin Olive Oil; 5 ounces, weight FOR THE CHOPPED SALAD:; 2 whole Romaine Hearts, Chopped; ¾ cups Baby Spinach; ¾ cups Carrots, Peeled And Sliced Thin; 1 cup Corn Kernels, Roasted; 1 whole Frozen Peas, Thawed And Heated Through Slightly; 4 whole Cherry Tomatoes, Sliced In Half; ¾ cups Cucumber, Cut Into Half Moons; 2 whole Large Eggs, Hardboiled And Diced; ½ pounds Kalamata Olives; 4 ounces, weight Avocados, Pitted And Diced; 1 cup Deli-style Turkey Breast, Cut Into 1 Inch Strips

Why it works: Garlic and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,435 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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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.

Garlic + spinachtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,435 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Shallot + spinachtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together198 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Garlic + shallottop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,000 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Olive + spinachtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,971 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Swap the spinach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, honey, white wine, vinegar, shallot, pepper, olive):

Capsicumfits better
Mustardfits about as well
Chivefits about as well
Spinachthe original

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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Avocado	1 medium (150g)	240
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Cherry	1 cup (138g)	87
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Corn	1/2 cup kernels (82g)	77
Honey	1 tbsp (21g)	64
Pea	1/2 cup (72g)	62
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Cucumber	1/2 cup sliced (52g)	16
Shallot	1 tbsp minced (10g)	7
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Olive	1 large (4g)	4
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Salad	not in our table	0

Chopped Salad with Garlic and Honey Vinaigrette