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Sweet Strawberry Almond Salad

A colorful and healthy salad that’s easy to make and simply delicious. Juicy Mandarin oranges, fresh blueberries and strawberries, creamy goat cheese, and crunchy Blue Diamond blueberry-flavored almonds.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and spinach are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 3,400 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

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Serves 4
Prep10 min

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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. Pepper + spinachtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Pepper + mandarin orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together49 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Olive + spinachtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Onion + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,243 recipes

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

  5. Mustard + spinachtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together503 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mandarin orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, sugar, apple cider vinegar, onion, mustard, pepper, spinach):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  3. Limebetter flavor fit
  4. Mandarin orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, sugar, apple cider vinegar, onion, mustard, pepper, spinach. 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).