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Pickled Beet and Goat Cheese Salad with Maple Roasted Pecans

Leafy greens, beets, tangy and creamy chévre goat cheese, maple roasted pecans, a sprinkle of dill, all drizzled with olive oil, balsamic reduction and a little pickled beet juice. Oh yum!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Pickled Beet and Goat Cheese Salad with Maple Roasted Pecans

Why it works: Lettuce and kale share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 23 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Pickled Beet and Goat Cheese Salad with Maple Roasted Pecans

Serves 2
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

521Calories
12 gProtein
43 gFat
29 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Beet1/2 cup (85g)35
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4

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. Lettuce + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together23 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lettuce + dilltop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together159 recipes

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

  3. Lettuce + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

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

  4. Kale + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together647 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Goat cheese + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together573 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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

Swap the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lettuce, kale, goat cheese, dill, olive):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lettuce, kale, goat cheese, dill, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.