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Roasted Beet and Orange Salad with Honey Orange Dressing

Get your New Year’s resolutions started off right with this delicious, easy to make salad.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and honey match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,068 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

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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. Orange + honeytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,068 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Walnut + lettucetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together491 recipes

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

  3. Orange + lettucetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together372 recipes

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

  4. Walnut + honeytop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together554 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Orange + walnuttop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, walnut, honey):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, walnut, honey. 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).