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Radish and Cucumber Salad

Preparing a big Thanksgiving meal can sometimes be overwhelming. This salad takes less than 10 minutes to prepare. It is low in calories and fat. Pass this crispy and refreshing salad along with the other dishes at your Thanksgiving dinner table and enjoy.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Radish and Cucumber Salad

Why it works: Radish and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 212 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Radish and Cucumber Salad

Serves 4
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

335Calories
2 gProtein
27 gFat
23 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Green Onion1 medium (110g)44
Agave1 tsp (7g)21
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Radish + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together212 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Radish + sesametop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together49 recipes

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

  3. Cucumber + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together364 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Sesame + agavetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Olive + sesametop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,111 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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 (radish, cucumber, red wine, vinegar, olive, sesame, agave):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Cherryfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against radish, cucumber, red wine, vinegar, olive, sesame, agave. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.