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Farmer’s Market Tomato Salad with Peaches and Honey Vinaigrette

Here’s a quick and easy way to use up those farmer’s market tomatoes (or your own). No greens necessary for this salad—just slice up your tomatoes and pair them with ripe sliced peaches and a sweet honey vinaigrette.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and honey match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 672 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Cut the tomatoes into wedges or thick slices and place them on a serving platter or shallow bowl.

  2. Halve the peaches, remove the pits, and slice them into thin wedges.

  3. In a small bowl, whisk the olive oil, white wine vinegar, honey, salt, and pepper until the dressing is smooth and well combined.

  4. Arrange the peach slices among the tomatoes, then drizzle the honey vinaigrette evenly over the top.

  5. Let the salad stand for about 10 minutes so the flavors meld. Scatter the basil over the top just before serving, if using.

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. Tomato + honeytop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together672 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Tomato + basiltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,979 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Pepper + basiltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,292 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Olive + basiltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,868 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the basil

The recipe marks basil as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, peach, pepper, olive, white wine, vinegar, honey):

  1. Basilthe original
  2. Thymeabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, peach, pepper, olive, white wine, vinegar, honey. 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).