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Wheat Berry Salad with Harissa and Pistachios Recipe

Chewy, toothsome wheat berries are mixed with exotic flavors for a sweet, spicy, crunchy side dish that will give potato salad a run for its money at your next...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Wheat Berry Salad with Harissa and Pistachios Recipe

Why it works: Lemon and mint are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,998 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Wheat Berry Salad with Harissa and Pistachios Recipe

6 to 8 servings (about 6 cups)

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

484Calories
25 gProtein
28 gFat
41 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pistachio1 oz (28g / ~49 kernels)159
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Wheatnot in our table0
Peppermintnot 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 chow. 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. Lemon + minttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,998 recipes

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

  2. Wheat + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,100 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Lemon + pistachiotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together431 recipes

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

  4. Olive + pistachiotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together299 recipes

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

  5. Wheat + pistachiotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together36 recipes

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

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, yogurt, olive, lemon, carrot, pistachio, mint):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, yogurt, olive, lemon, carrot, pistachio, mint. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.