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Salad with Grapes, Blue Cheese, Sugared-Pecans and Meyer Lemon Dressing

A fresh grape and sugared-pecan salad, paired with blue cheese and homemade Meyer lemon dressing. Simple and delicious!

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Why it works: Grape and blue cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 37 recipes mention both. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep20 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

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

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. Grape + blue cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Pepper + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Pepper + clovetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13,144 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Blue cheese + buttertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  5. Blue cheese + pecanstop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

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 (grape, blue cheese, pecans, butter, sugar, pepper, clove):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against grape, blue cheese, pecans, butter, sugar, pepper, clove. 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).