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Quinoa Salad with Snap Peas, Radishes and Carrots

This Quinoa Salad With Snap Peas, Radishes and Carrots with peanut dressing is light, clean and delicious!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Quinoa Salad with Snap Peas, Radishes and Carrots

Why it works: Radish and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 212 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Quinoa Salad with Snap Peas, Radishes and Carrots

Serves 4
Prep5 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1028Calories
24 gProtein
32 gFat
160 gCarbs

Counts 15 of 16 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 15 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Quinoa1 cup cooked (185g)222
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Saladnot 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. Radish + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together212 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Quinoa + cucumbertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Peas + cucumbertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together629 recipes

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

  4. Peas + carrottop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,994 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Carrot + cucumbertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,215 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 radish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, peas, quinoa, carrot, cucumber, peanut, rice wine):

  1. Lettucefits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Welsh onionfits better
  4. Radishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, peas, quinoa, carrot, cucumber, peanut, rice wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.