Why it works: Pecans and cabbage work together. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓
Beet Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Cut the cooked beets into ½ inch cubes.
In a bowl, combine the beets and shelled pecans.
Dress and serve
Mix with your desired dressing.
Garnish with chopped red cabbage before serving.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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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.
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Pecans + cabbagetop 29% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together14 recipes
Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Beets
- Provide the main body, sweetness and earthy colour of the salad.
- Pecans
- Add crunch and richness that contrasts with the soft beets.
“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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