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Spinach Salad with Fuyu Persimmon, Jicama & Avocado with Miso Dressing Recipe

By cookincanuck · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Spinach Salad with Fuyu Persimmon, Jicama & Avocado with Miso Dressing Recipe

Why it works: Lime and jicama share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 80 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Spinach Salad with Fuyu Persimmon, Jicama & Avocado with Miso Dressing Recipe

Makes 4 first-course servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

463Calories
7 gProtein
37 gFat
34 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Jicama1 cup (120g)46
Miso1 tbsp (18g)34
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Soybeannot in our table0
Persimmonnot in our table0

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

By cookincanuck. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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.

  1. Lime + jicamatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together80 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Miso + spinachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Lime + spinachtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together213 recipes

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

  5. 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 soybean

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lime, miso, pepper, olive, spinach, persimmon, jicama):

  1. Cashew nutfits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Chickpeafits better
  4. Soybeanthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lime, miso, pepper, olive, spinach, persimmon, jicama. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.