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Coachman's Salad

A salad of sliced bologna sausage, green beans, eggs, cucumber, red pepper, onion, dressed with sour cream, mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper, and chives.

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Why it works: Green beans and cucumber share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 95 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Coachman's Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mix the dressing ingredients separately.

  2. Wash green beans, blanch them, chill them, and drain the water.

  3. Cut the bologna sausage, cucumber, and eggs into slices.

  4. Cut the red pepper and onion into smaller pieces.

Assemble and serve

  1. Arrange the sliced ingredients and green beans on a dish and pour the prepared dressing over the salad while serving.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

578Calories
54 gProtein
21 gFat
42 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
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.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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. Green beans + cucumbertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together95 recipes

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

  2. Cucumber + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,050 recipes

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

  3. Cucumber + vinegartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,734 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  4. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 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

What each ingredient does

Sour cream
Forms the creamy body of the dressing and adds moisture and mild tang.
Mayonnaise
Adds richness and fat to the dressing, helping it cling to the vegetables.
Green beans
Blanching and chilling keeps them crisp-tender and bright green.
Hard-boiled eggs
Add protein-based richness and a soft texture to the salad.

The step that matters

Blanch and chill the green beans. Boiling briefly and then cooling in cold water stops the cooking, keeping the beans crisp and green. Leaving them too long turns them soft and dull, and wet beans dilute the dressing, so draining them well matters.

Swap the green beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, cucumber, pepper, onion, cream, vinegar, sugar):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Green beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cucumber, pepper, onion, cream, vinegar, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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