Name: Beetroot Salad with Herring
Ingredients: 3 beetroots; 100 g herring; 0.5 onion; 4 tblsps mayonnaise; greens

Why it works: Beetroot and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,261 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Beetroot Salad with Herring

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

Peel and shred the boiled beetroots and onion.
Dice the fleshy part of herring.

Assemble and serve

Mix the vegetables with herring, place the mixture in a salad bowl, pour over mayonnaise and garnish with greens.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

122Calories

8 gProtein

5 gFat

11 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 4 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Beetroot	not in our table	0
Herring	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.

Beetroot + oniontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,261 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

Beetroots: Provides the main body, earthy sweetness and the deep red colour of the salad.
Herring: Adds savoury, salty flavour and a firm, flaky protein to the salad.
Mayonnaise: Adds fat and creaminess, binding the ingredients and moistening the salad.
Onion: Adds sharp, pungent flavour that cuts through the sweetness of the beetroot.

“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.