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Autumn Kale Salad with Fennel, Honeycrisp and Goat Cheese

Healthy kale salad featuring shaved fennel, chopped honeycrisp apple, toasted pepitas, dried cranberries and goat cheese, tossed in a lemony dressing.

By cookieandkate · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Autumn Kale Salad with Fennel, Honeycrisp and Goat Cheese

Why it works: Fennel and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 723 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Autumn Kale Salad with Fennel, Honeycrisp and Goat Cheese

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

682Calories
13 gProtein
44 gFat
72 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 15 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Fennel1/2 bulb (87g)27
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
Pepitanot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Seednot 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 cookieandkate. 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. Fennel + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together723 recipes

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

  2. Kale + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Kale + fenneltop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Pumpkin + maple syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together256 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Kale + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together647 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (kale, fennel, goat cheese, pumpkin, olive, lemon, maple syrup):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against kale, fennel, goat cheese, pumpkin, olive, lemon, maple syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.