Why it works: Endive and pepper work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 308 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓
Endive Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the endive
Trim and wash the endive thoroughly.
Divide the endive into small pieces and drain.
Dry the endive using a cloth or salad basket.
Dress and serve
Place the endive in a salad bowl.
Season with pepper and coarse sea salt.
Pour salad dressing over the endive and mix thoroughly.
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.
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Endive + peppertop 10% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together308 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Endive
- Provides the crisp, slightly bitter leaves that form the body of the salad.
The step that matters
Drying the endive. Thoroughly drying the leaves matters because water left on them dilutes the dressing and stops it clinging, so the salad turns watery and loses flavour.
“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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