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Antipasto Salad with Feta Vinaigrette

This antipasto salad is perfect for those warm summer nights when it’s too hot to cook! This vibrant salad has lots of olives, bell peppers, artichokes and is topped with a tangy feta vinaigrette!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Antipasto Salad with Feta Vinaigrette

Why it works: Artichoke and capers share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 77 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Antipasto Salad with Feta Vinaigrette

Serves 4
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

135Calories
5 gProtein
1 gFat
30 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Artichoke1 medium (128g)60
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Romaine Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Olive1 large (4g)4
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Capers1 tbsp (9g) drained2
Saladnot in our table0

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. Artichoke + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together77 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Capers + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together372 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Artichoke + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together101 recipes

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

  4. Olive + artichoketop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together745 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Olive + caperstop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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 (salami, olive, pepper, artichoke, capers, white wine, vinegar):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Mustardfits about as well
  3. Lettucethe original
  4. Spinachfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against salami, olive, pepper, artichoke, capers, white wine, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.