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Barley Salad with Chickpeas and Cherries

This delicious and hearty vegetarian salad is packed full of whole grains, protein, and sweet cherries. It makes a wonderful meatless dinner or side dish.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Chickpea and honey work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 67 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl butyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep15 min
Cook50 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Chickpea + honeytop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl butyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Celery + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,467 recipes

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

  3. Chickpea + almondtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together73 recipes

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

  4. Goat cheese + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together98 recipes

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

  5. Chickpea + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together527 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 almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (barley, chickpea, celery, onion, goat cheese, lemon, vinegar):

  1. Beansbetter flavor fit
  2. Sesamebetter flavor fit
  3. Lentilsbetter flavor fit
  4. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against barley, chickpea, celery, onion, goat cheese, lemon, vinegar. 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).