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Winter Quinoa Salad

This recipe combines quinoa with winter flavors like butternut squash and kale for a tasty salad.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Winter Quinoa Salad

Why it works: Butternut squash and kale share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 31 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Winter Quinoa Salad

Serves 8
Prep20 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

390Calories
13 gProtein
7 gFat
72 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
Quinoa1 cup cooked (185g)222
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Kale1 cup chopped (67g)33
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
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. Butternut squash + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Quinoa + butternut squashtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Quinoa + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Quinoa + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together38 recipes

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

  5. Butternut squash + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together692 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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 (quinoa, butternut squash, onion, kale, vinegar):

  1. Lentilsfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Cashew nutfits better
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against quinoa, butternut squash, onion, kale, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.