Skip to main content

My Mom’s Super Power Salad

A mix of lettuce, spinach, red rice, cashews, pumpkin seeds, dried cranberries, avocado and ginger peanut sauce.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓
My Mom’s Super Power Salad

Why it works: Peanut and sesame match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 349 recipes. Both carry 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

My Mom’s Super Power Salad

Serves 2
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

725Calories
18 gProtein
41 gFat
78 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 14 ingredients. The other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Red Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Cashew1 oz (28g / ~18 nuts)157
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Saucenot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Saladnot 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 tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Peanut + sesametop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together349 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  2. Rice + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together984 recipes

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

  3. Ginger + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,531 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Peanut + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together670 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Ginger + peanuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together524 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peanut, sauce, butter, honey, rice, vinegar, sesame):

  1. Garlicfits about as well
  2. Gingerthe original
  3. Cinnamonfits about as well
  4. Turmericfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against peanut, sauce, butter, honey, rice, vinegar, sesame. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.