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Wild Rice, Pecan, and Cranberry Salad Recipe

A healthy, easy recipe for chilled wild-rice salad with pecans, cranberries, and orange vinaigrette; serve it as a side for fall or winter weeknight dinners.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Wild Rice, Pecan, and Cranberry Salad Recipe

Why it works: Shallot and wild rice share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Wild Rice, Pecan, and Cranberry Salad Recipe

6 to 8 servings
Cook2 hr 20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

752Calories
13 gProtein
36 gFat
105 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Wild Rice1 cup cooked (164g)166
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Pomegranate1/2 cup seeds (87g)72
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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 chow. 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. Shallot + wild ricetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Pomegranate + shallottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Pomegranate + orangetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Pomegranate + wild ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Pomegranate + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together234 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (white wine, vinegar, pomegranate, molasses, shallot, pepper, wild rice):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against white wine, vinegar, pomegranate, molasses, shallot, pepper, wild rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.