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Apple Arugula Salad with Carrots and Cabbage

This is a beautiful and bright salad that you can put together very quickly. It’s tangy, crisp, and colourful, and is a great accompaniment to almost any meal. Serve it alongside comforting chili in the winter, or bring it to a picnic in the summer.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Apple Arugula Salad with Carrots and Cabbage

Why it works: Carrot and cabbage are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,505 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Apple Arugula Salad with Carrots and Cabbage

Serves 6
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

425Calories
6 gProtein
15 gFat
74 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Green Cabbage1 cup shredded (89g)22
Arugula1 cup (20g)5
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Saladnot in our table0
Cidernot 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. Carrot + cabbagetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,505 recipes

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

  2. Apple + white winetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together372 recipes

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

  3. Carrot + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,861 recipes

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

  4. Cabbage + appletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together235 recipes

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

  5. Apple + maple syruptop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together272 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 arugula

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, cabbage, apple, olive, white wine, maple syrup):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Arugulathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, cabbage, apple, olive, white wine, maple syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.