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Summer Kale Salad with Strawberries and Avocado

A picture perfect salad for summer that’s bursting with fresh flavor!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Summer Kale Salad with Strawberries and Avocado

Why it works: Mustard and kale share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 98 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Summer Kale Salad with Strawberries and Avocado

Serves 4
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

838Calories
17 gProtein
64 gFat
63 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Strawberry1 cup (152g)49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
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. Mustard + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Kale + pinetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Lemon + pinetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together480 recipes

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

  5. Lemon + kaletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, mustard, honey, olive, pepper, kale, pine):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, mustard, honey, olive, pepper, kale, pine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.