Why it works: Egg and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 34% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,334 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓
Protose Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Combine the pesto, hard-boiled eggs, and minced celery in a bowl.
Season with salt and mix well.
Serve with your choice of mayonnaise dressing.
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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Egg + celerytop 34% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together6,334 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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What each ingredient does
- Hard-boiled eggs
- Adds richness and a soft, creamy body to the salad.
- Celery
- Adds a crisp crunch that contrasts with the soft eggs.
“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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