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Winter Citrus and Avocado Kale Salad with Farro and Hazelnuts

By thevintagemixer · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Kale and avocado share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 54 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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

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By thevintagemixer. 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 + avocadotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Orange + grapefruittop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together232 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Grapefruit + avocadotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together55 recipes

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

  4. Avocado + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,376 recipes

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

  5. Orange + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,184 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (kale, grapefruit, avocado, hazelnut, olive, honey, pepper):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Cherryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against kale, grapefruit, avocado, hazelnut, olive, honey, pepper. 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).