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Fennel Beetroot Slaw

This easy peasy crunchy coleslaw makes a great side dish with roast meat, packed with fennel, red cabbage, beetroot and spring onions.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Fennel and beetroot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 79 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Fennel Beetroot Slaw

Serves 4
Prep30 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

177Calories
6 gProtein
6 gFat
28 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Fennel1/2 bulb (87g)27
Beetrootnot in our table0
Nigella Seednot 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 bbcfood. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Fennel + beetroottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together79 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cabbage + beetroottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together377 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Cabbage + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,001 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Beetroot + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,261 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Fennel + cabbagetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

Swap the nigella seed

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fennel, cabbage, beetroot, onion, cream):

  1. Chestnutfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Nigella seedthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fennel, cabbage, beetroot, onion, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.