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Steak Salad with Roasted Corn, Strawberries and Blue Cheese

This summer salad is made with juicy filet mignon, sweet strawberries, roasted corn and tangy blue cheese. It’s the perfect salad for a hot summer day!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Steak Salad with Roasted Corn, Strawberries and Blue Cheese

Why it works: Garlic and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Steak Salad with Roasted Corn, Strawberries and Blue Cheese

Serves 2
Prep5 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

510Calories
30 gProtein
30 gFat
33 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Romaine Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Olive + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

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

  3. Garlic + lettucetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,078 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Pepper + lettucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,037 recipes

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

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

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, beef, pepper, garlic, sugar, olive):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, beef, pepper, garlic, sugar, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.