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Bar Tartine Cauliflower Salad

A beautiful cauliflower salad from the new Bar Tartine cookbook - a crunchy, hearty mixture of cauliflower, seeds, chiles, radishes, chickpeas, and green onions slathered in an enveloping garlicky yogurt dressing.

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Bar Tartine Cauliflower Salad

Why it works: Sunflower and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 352 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Bar Tartine Cauliflower Salad

Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

625Calories
39 gProtein
18 gFat
87 gCarbs

Counts 16 of 17 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 16 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Chickpea1/2 cup canned (120g) drained134
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Tarragon1 tsp dried (0.5g)2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Sunflower Oilnot 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 101cookbooks. 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. Sunflower + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together352 recipes

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

  2. Yogurt + honeytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together660 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Clove + red winetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together849 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  4. Sunflower + clovetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together199 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Garlic + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,893 recipes

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

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yogurt, sunflower, garlic, clove, red wine, vinegar, honey):

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Pearfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against yogurt, sunflower, garlic, clove, red wine, vinegar, honey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.