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Blueberry Pomegranate Quinoa Kale Salad

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Why it works: Kale and quinoa share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 41 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

6 Servings

Ingredients

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

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By pickypalate. 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. Kale + quinoatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Pomegranate + pistachiotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Pomegranate + quinoatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Olive + parmesan cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Cucumber + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,279 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pistachio

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (kale, olive, lemon, parmesan cheese, pomegranate, cucumber, mustard):

  1. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Lentilsabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Pistachiothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against kale, olive, lemon, parmesan cheese, pomegranate, cucumber, mustard. 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).