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Carrot Apple Salad with Yogurt Dressing

A healthy salad filled with sweet carrots and apples and topped with a delicious yogurt dressing. A perfect side dish for dinner or brunch!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Carrot Apple Salad with Yogurt Dressing

Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Carrot Apple Salad with Yogurt Dressing

Serves 4
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

440Calories
21 gProtein
4 gFat
89 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Pecan1 half (4g)20
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6

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. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Carrot + orangetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together737 recipes

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

  3. Yogurt + honeytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together660 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  4. Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Apple + honeytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together569 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Swap the pecans

The recipe marks pecans as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, apple, celery, raisin, yogurt, orange, honey):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, apple, celery, raisin, yogurt, orange, honey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.