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Pistachio-Caper Vinaigrette Recipe

Why turn to the same ol' balsamic vinaigrette when you can whip up a bright, fresh take on dressing like this one? With toasty flavors from pistachio oil, fragrant...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Pistachio-Caper Vinaigrette Recipe

Why it works: Capers and pistachio share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Pistachio-Caper Vinaigrette Recipe

1 1/4 cups

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

386Calories
9 gProtein
27 gFat
34 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pistachio1 oz (28g / ~49 kernels)159
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Capers1 tbsp (9g) drained2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Capers + pistachiotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Capers + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Lemon + caperstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Lemon + pistachiotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together431 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 onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, pepper, capers, pistachio, olive):

  1. Kalefits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

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