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Southwestern Salad with Cumin Vinaigrette

This southwestern-inspired vegan salad includes hearts of palm, roasted corn and two types of beans, and is spiced up with an easy homemade cumin vinaigrette.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Kidney beans and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 364 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep15 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Contains: wheat (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. Kidney beans + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together364 recipes

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

  2. Spinach + lettucetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together427 recipes

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

  3. Corn + beanstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,211 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Lettuce + beanstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together499 recipes

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

  5. Spinach + beanstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together365 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, spinach, lettuce, kidney beans, beans, jicama, olive):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Limebetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, spinach, lettuce, kidney beans, beans, jicama, olive. 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).