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Maple Roasted Beet and Goat Cheese Salad

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By naturallyella · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Maple Roasted Beet and Goat Cheese Salad

Why it works: Walnut and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 491 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Maple Roasted Beet and Goat Cheese Salad

Serves 2
Prep5 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

505Calories
14 gProtein
39 gFat
30 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Beet1/2 cup (85g)35
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
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.

By naturallyella. 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. Walnut + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together491 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Walnut + sunflowertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together129 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Lettuce + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Sunflower + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together698 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Lettuce + sunflowertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (walnut, maple syrup, goat cheese, sunflower, olive):

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Beetrootfits about as well
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against walnut, maple syrup, goat cheese, sunflower, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.