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Strawberry Spinach Salad with Creamy Poppy Seed Dressing

When I think of warm spring weather, I think of a salad with tender baby spinach and fresh sweet strawberries. These super foods are delicious and nutritious. My version has feta cheese, which is lower in fat and calories than many cheeses and has an intense flavor meaning a smaller portion is satisfying. My light and creamy poppy seed dressing is much healthier than store bought versions which are filled with oil and sugar.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Poppy seed and spinach share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 31 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Poppy seed + spinachtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Yogurt + honeytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together659 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Olive + yogurttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  4. Honey + milktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,333 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  5. Yogurt + poppy seedtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, champagne, olive, yogurt, honey, milk, poppy seed):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, champagne, olive, yogurt, honey, milk, poppy seed. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).