Name: Navruz Salad
Ingredients: 200 g (7 oz) red radishes or cucumbers; 1 egg; 1 bundle (4 oz) green onions; half bundle (1 oz) dill; 1 bundle (2 1/2 oz) fresh coriander; 2 leaves (1/3 oz) lettuce; 225 g (8 oz) cheese; 200 g (7 oz) or 4/5 cup sour cream.

Why it works: Radish and lettuce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 58 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Navruz Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

Dice radish and boiled egg.
Chop green onions, dill and fresh coriander.
Shred lettuce into very thin strips.

Combine and serve

Place ingredients in a bowl and combine with half a sour cream and spices.
To serve, cover each portion with remaining sour cream and top with grated cheese.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

360Calories

33 gProtein

16 gFat

22 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Cheese	1 oz (28g) cheddar	113
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Cucumber	1/2 cup sliced (52g)	16
Lettuce	1 cup shredded (36g)	5
Dill	5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried	4
Coriander	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.

Recipe from the Recipes Wiki (Fandom).

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

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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.

Radish + lettucetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together58 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Dill + coriandertop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together183 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Radish + coriandertop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together57 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).
Dill + lettucetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together159 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Coriander + lettucetop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together455 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Sour cream: Adds moisture and creamy richness that binds the chopped vegetables together.
Cheese: Adds salty, savoury flavour and a rich topping over each portion.
Egg: Adds richness and soft texture through the diced boiled egg.
Red radishes or cucumbers: Provides crisp texture and fresh, mild crunch to the salad.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (radish, egg, dill, coriander, lettuce, cheese, cream):

Mustardfits better
Cucumberfits better
Spinachfits better
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against radish, egg, dill, coriander, lettuce, cheese, cream. 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.