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Persimmon Salad with Sesame Vinaigrette Recipe

An Asian-inspired salad recipe featuring ripe persimmons.

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Why it works: Sesame and watercress share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 38 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Contains: soy, fish, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sesame + watercresstop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Sesame + misotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together121 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Sauce + anchovytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,048 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Garlic + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Garlic + misotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together128 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sesame, garlic, olive, sauce, miso, anchovy, sugar):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  3. Pumpkinabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sesame, garlic, olive, sauce, miso, anchovy, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).