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Brussels Sprouts Salad with Cranberry Orange Vinaigrette

This Brussels sprouts salad with cranberry vinaigrette is light, nutritious and packed with healthy super foods. The creamy homemade cranberry orange vinaigrette is the perfect addition to any fall/winter salad.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and brussels sprouts share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and 2 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

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Serves 1
Prep10 min

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

  1. Mustard + brussels sproutstop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Orange + cranberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together230 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Orange + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,184 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Cranberry + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together127 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Apple cider vinegar + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together408 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, apple cider vinegar, cranberry, sauce, pepper, olive, brussels sprouts):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, apple cider vinegar, cranberry, sauce, pepper, olive, brussels sprouts. 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).