Why it works: Beetroot and sauce work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 374 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Beetroot Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Slice the beetroot to a thickness of about 1/8 inch.
Serve with either mayonnaise sauce or salad 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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Beetroot + saucetop 21% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together374 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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