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Roasted Vegetable Salad

Hearty but light and sweet yet savory. You can easily substitute out the vegetables with your favorites or what’s in season, so you can eat it to please your taste buds all year round.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Roasted Vegetable Salad

Why it works: Sweet potato and shallot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Roasted Vegetable Salad

Serves 6
Prep5 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

527Calories
14 gProtein
23 gFat
72 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Parsnip1/2 cup (78g)55
Beet1/2 cup (85g)35
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saladnot in our table0
Pumpkinnot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sweet potato + shallottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Carrot + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 recipes

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

  3. Carrot + sweet potatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together302 recipes

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

  4. Olive + goat cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together573 recipes

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

  5. Sweet potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together950 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, sweet potato, olive, pepper, goat cheese):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, sweet potato, olive, pepper, goat cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.