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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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Why it works: Kale and maple syrup work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and 17 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

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Contains: milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Kale + maple syruptop 19% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  2. Fennel + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together723 recipes

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

  3. Pumpkin + maple syruptop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together256 recipes

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

  4. Goat cheese + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together557 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Kale + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the apple

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

  1. Orangebetter flavor fit
  2. Limebetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  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. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).