Name: Brussels Sprouts Salad
Ingredients: Cooked Brussels sprouts; Salad dressing; Beetroot

Why it works: Brussels sprouts and beetroot work together. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Brussels Sprouts Salad

Ingredients

Cooked Brussels sprouts
Salad dressing
Beetroot

Directions

Toss the cooked Brussels sprouts lightly in a little salad dressing.
Pile the sprouts in a salad bowl.
Decorate with beetroot.

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.

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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.

Brussels sprouts + beetroottop 30% of all pairs

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Cooked together6 recipes

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

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