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Strawberry Spinach Salad with Creamy Poppyseed Dressing

Fresh and colorful strawberry spinach salad topped with a creamy poppyseed dressing. Loaded with fresh feta cheese, red onions and pine nuts.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Strawberry Spinach Salad with Creamy Poppyseed Dressing

Why it works: Spinach and pine match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 181 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Strawberry Spinach Salad with Creamy Poppyseed Dressing

Serves 4
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

915Calories
44 gProtein
39 gFat
98 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 14 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Strawberry1 cup (152g)49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Saladnot in our table0
Poppy 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.

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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. Spinach + pinetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together181 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Spinach + cucumbertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together355 recipes

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

  3. Cucumber + pinetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Spinach + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,336 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Onion + cucumbertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,050 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 nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (spinach, onion, cucumber, pine, feta cheese, rice wine, vinegar):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against spinach, onion, cucumber, pine, feta cheese, rice wine, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.