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Grated Carrot and Chopped White Cabbage Salad, with Lime Juice and Olive Oil

A salad of grated carrots and chopped white cabbage dressed with lime juice, olive oil, and topped with grated nuts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 646 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Grated Carrot and Chopped White Cabbage Salad, with Lime Juice and Olive Oil

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a large bowl, combine grated carrots and chopped cabbage.

  2. In a separate bowl, whisk together lime juice and olive oil.

Assemble and serve

  1. Pour the dressing over the salad and toss to combine.

  2. Sprinkle grated nuts on top before serving.

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.

  1. Carrot + limetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together646 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Carrot + cabbagetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,505 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Lime + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Cabbage + limetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together143 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Carrot + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,861 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Carrots
Provide sweetness, crunch and bulk to the salad.
White cabbage
Adds crisp texture and body that holds up to the dressing.
Lime juice
Supplies acidity that brightens the salad and balances the oil.
Olive oil
Adds fat that carries flavour and gives the dressing a smooth, coating texture.
Nuts
Add crunch and a toasty, rich flavour on top.

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, cabbage, lime, olive):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, cabbage, lime, olive. 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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