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Heston's Peach, Parma Ham and Gruyère Salad Recipe

Nothing too heavy; just fresh fruit, shaved gruyère and a scattering of Parma ham on a bed of leaves.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Chard and mustard share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 35 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Heston's Peach, Parma Ham and Gruyère Salad Recipe

4 people
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

594Calories
33 gProtein
29 gFat
53 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Peach1 medium (150g)59
Cloves1 tsp ground (2g)7
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Chardnot 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 lovefood. 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. Chard + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chard + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together62 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

  4. Vinegar + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Peach + clovetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together280 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

Swap the peach

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

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Peachthe original

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