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Quinoa Salad with Roasted Asparagus

This Quinoa Salad with Roasted Asparagus is quick and easy to make for your busy days! It is made with red onion, pepper, asparagus, quinoa and vinaigrette!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Quinoa and asparagus share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 21 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

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Serves 4
Prep5 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. Quinoa + asparagustop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Onion + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,907 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Chive + asparagustop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together164 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Quinoa + chivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together23 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + asparagustop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,968 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (quinoa, pepper, chive, asparagus):

  1. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  2. Shallotbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against quinoa, pepper, chive, asparagus. 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).