Name: Blood Orange & Avocado Salad
Prep time: 10 min
Yield: 1
Ingredients: 3 whole Blood Oranges, Half For Salad And Half For Dressing; 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil; 1 Tablespoon Balsamic Vinegar; ½ teaspoons Dijon Mustard; 2 Tablespoons Minced Shallots; 1-½ cup Freshly Ground Black Pepper As Desired; ¼ cups Spinach And/or Mixed Greens Or As Desired; 1-½ Tablespoon Feta Cheese Crumbles; ½ whole Salted Sunflower Seed Kernels

Why it works: Mustard and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 859 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Blood Orange & Avocado Salad

Serves 1

Prep10 min

Ingredients

3 whole Blood Oranges, Half For Salad And Half For Dressing
1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
1 Tablespoon Balsamic Vinegar
½ teaspoons Dijon Mustard
2 Tablespoons Minced Shallots
1-½ cup Freshly Ground Black Pepper As Desired
¼ cups Spinach And/or Mixed Greens Or As Desired
1-½ Tablespoon Feta Cheese Crumbles
½ whole Salted Sunflower Seed Kernels

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

522Calories

16 gProtein

38 gFat

35 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Sunflower Seed	1 oz (28g) hulled	165
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Feta Cheese	1 oz (28g) cheddar	113
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Mustard	1 tsp (5g) yellow	3
Salad	not in our table	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.

Mustard + shallottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together859 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Shallot + spinachtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together198 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Mustard + spinachtop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together503 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Olive + spinachtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,971 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Olive + feta cheesetop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,482 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, vinegar, mustard, shallot, pepper, spinach, feta cheese):

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Fit is the average pairing score against olive, vinegar, mustard, shallot, pepper, spinach, feta cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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