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Orange & Pomegranate Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette

This power salad is great for you and is a cinch to make! Makes a perfect, healthy starter or side for your Thanksgiving dinner.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pomegranate and goat cheese work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and 12 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep15 min

Ingredients

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

  • ⅛ cups FOR THE VINAIGRETTE

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. Pomegranate + goat cheesetop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Pomegranate + orangetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  3. Goat cheese + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together557 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  4. Pomegranate + spinachtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Red wine + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together569 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pomegranate, orange, spinach, goat cheese, olive, red wine, vinegar):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pomegranate, orange, spinach, goat cheese, olive, red wine, vinegar. 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).