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Crispy Duck Salad

Enjoy fantastic contrasts in this zingy salad - salt, sweet and sour flavours combine with warm duck and chilled fruit.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Crispy Duck Salad

Why it works: Coriander and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,536 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Crispy Duck Salad

Serves 4
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

481Calories
23 gProtein
29 gFat
34 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Duck100g cooked with skin337
Pomegranate1/2 cup seeds (87g)72
Watermelon1 cup diced (152g)46
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Peppermintnot in our table0
Coriandernot 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 bbcfood. 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. Coriander + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,536 recipes

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

  2. Pomegranate + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Mint + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together846 recipes

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

  4. Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

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

  5. Pomegranate + minttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

Swap the pomegranate

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mint, coriander, sauce, fish sauce, lime, pepper):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Mangofits about as well
  3. Avocadofits about as well
  4. Pomegranatethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mint, coriander, sauce, fish sauce, lime, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.