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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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Why it works: Spinach and poppy seed share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 31 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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. Spinach + poppy seedtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together31 recipes

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

  2. Spinach + pinetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together181 recipes

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

  3. Cucumber + feta cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together369 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

  4. Cucumber + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,705 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  5. Spinach + feta cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together374 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the nuts

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

  1. Sesamebetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  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. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).