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Beautiful Beet Salad with Walnuts and Gorgonzola

Roasted beets are the stars of the show in this colorful and delicious salad.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Beautiful Beet Salad with Walnuts and Gorgonzola

Why it works: Walnut and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,087 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Beautiful Beet Salad with Walnuts and Gorgonzola

Serves 2
Prep20 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

340Calories
10 gProtein
26 gFat
19 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Beet1/2 cup (85g)35
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Saladnot 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. Walnut + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

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

  3. Red wine + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together575 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Olive + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,297 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  5. Cheese + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,802 recipes

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

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

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, cheese, olive, red wine, vinegar):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Soybeanfits about as well
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, cheese, olive, red wine, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.