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Red Potato & Green Bean Salad with Rosemary Vinaigrette

This vibrant spring salad is incredibly flavorful and healthy! It’s perfect for Easter or as a side salad any other day of the year. Feel free to replace the green beans with asparagus.

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Red Potato & Green Bean Salad with Rosemary Vinaigrette

Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Red Potato & Green Bean Salad with Rosemary Vinaigrette

Serves 4
Prep20 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

373Calories
7 gProtein
1 gFat
87 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Potato + green beanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Onion + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

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

  4. Potato + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,340 recipes

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

  5. Green beans + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together116 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

Swap the green beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, onion, white wine, vinegar, mustard, clove, honey):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Horseradishfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Green beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, onion, white wine, vinegar, mustard, clove, honey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.