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Gbeen Pea Salad

A salad of lettuce, green peas, cold lamb or chicken, mint, and vinaigrette.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Peas and mint are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,137 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Gbeen Pea Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Drain the cooked green peas.

  2. Wash and drain the lettuce, then separate the leaves.

Assemble and serve

  1. Arrange the lettuce leaves in a salad bowl.

  2. Season the lettuce and add a layer of cold lamb or chicken pieces.

  3. Add a layer of peas, followed by another layer of lettuce.

  4. Top with the remaining peas.

  5. Mix the vinaigrette with chopped mint and pour over the salad.

  6. Serve immediately.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

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. Peas + minttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Peas + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,293 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Lettuce + minttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together569 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Lamb + minttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together772 recipes

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

  5. Peas + lambtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together650 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Green peas
Provide the main body and sweet, fresh flavour of the salad.
Lettuce
Forms the crisp, leafy base that holds the layers together.
Cold lamb or chicken
Adds protein and a savoury, meaty note to the salad.
Vinaigrette
Adds acidity and fat that dress the leaves and bring out flavour.

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, lamb, mint):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Cucumberfits about as well
  3. Lettucethe original
  4. Spinachfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, lamb, mint. 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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