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Roasted Root Vegetable Salad with Herbed Goat Cheese

The perfect hearty salad for fall!

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Why it works: Turnip and arugula work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and 3 recipes mention both. Both carry cis-3-hexenal, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep15 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

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

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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. Turnip + arugulatop 24% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: cis-3-hexenal (green, grassy).

  2. Carrot + parsniptop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,096 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Turnip + parsniptop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together589 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Carrot + turniptop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,001 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, turnip, parsnip, onion, garlic, olive, thyme):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Leekbetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  4. Sweet potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, turnip, parsnip, onion, garlic, olive, thyme. 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).