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Georgian Garlic Salad

A salad of boiled garlic cloves tossed in olive oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper, and herbs.

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Why it works: Garlic and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Georgian Garlic Salad

Time3 to 5 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the garlic

  1. Peel all garlic cloves.

  2. Bring a saucepan of water to a boil.

  3. Turn off heat and drop garlic cloves into the hot water.

  4. Let sit for 3 to 5 minutes.

  5. Remove garlic and plunge into cold water (or rinse thoroughly) to stop cooking.

Make the dressing

  1. Dissolve salt into lemon juice.

  2. Make a vinaigrette with olive oil, lemon juice/salt, pepper, and herbs.

Jar and chill

  1. Place garlic into jars and pour oil mixture over the cloves.

  2. Refrigerate.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

151Calories
1 gProtein
14 gFat
8 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

What each ingredient does

Garlic cloves
Provide the main body and pungent flavour of the salad, mellowed by brief blanching.
Extra virgin olive oil
Carries the flavour and keeps the garlic moist and coated in the jar.
Fresh lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the dressing and balances the rich oil.

The step that matters

Blanching the garlic for 3 to 5 minutes. Heat softens the sharp compounds in raw garlic, so brief blanching mellows its bite. Leaving it too long can make the cloves soft and cooked-tasting, and rinsing in cold water right after stops the cooking so the texture stays firm.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, olive, lemon, pepper):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Basilfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, olive, lemon, pepper. 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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