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Roasted Sweet Potato and Brussels Sprouts Salad

Warm salad with roasted sweet potatoes and Brussels sprouts, combined with quinoa, red onion, dried cranberries and goat cheese.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Brussels sprouts and mustard share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and 2 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep15 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Brussels sprouts + mustardtop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Sweet potato + quinoatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Sweet potato + maple syruptop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Vinegar + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Vinegar and mustard share little aroma chemistry, yet 14,067 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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 (sweet potato, brussels sprouts, quinoa, goat cheese, maple syrup, olive, vinegar):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Cucumberabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, brussels sprouts, quinoa, goat cheese, maple syrup, olive, 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).