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Radicchio, Apple and Pear Salad

A few people have asked me what I thought of the food on and I admit, I’ve been dodging the question. If there could be a tiny, unfortunate thing at making a craft of getting food to taste the exact way you wish it to in your own kitchen, it would definitely be that the food outside it never tastes as good as it once did — especially food at a week long all-you-can-eat-buffet. Given, understandably, that nobody wants to eat their spaghetti while you espouse on all of the techniques the kitchen could have employed to avoid gumminess, like I said, I mostly shut up.

By smittenkitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Radicchio, Apple and Pear Salad

Why it works: Apple and pear match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 649 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

Radicchio, Apple and Pear Salad

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

694Calories
17 gProtein
42 gFat
72 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 14 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Grapeseed Oil1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Pear1 medium (178g)101
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Olive1 large (4g)4
Mint2 tbsp fresh (3g)2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Radicchionot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By smittenkitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Apple + peartop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together649 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Lemon + minttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,998 recipes

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

  3. Shallot + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,523 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Olive + shallottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,659 recipes

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

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

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, olive, shallot, lemon, buttermilk, apple, pear):

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Cinnamonfits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, olive, shallot, lemon, buttermilk, apple, pear. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.