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Herbed Beets with Fennel Recipe

This salad is easy to make but complex in flavor, as earthy beets and anise-y fennel get coated in a tangy dressing. You can serve this warm or cold—either...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Herbed Beets with Fennel Recipe

Why it works: Mustard and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 587 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Herbed Beets with Fennel Recipe

6 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

307Calories
4 gProtein
26 gFat
20 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Beet1/2 cup (85g)35
Fennel Bulb1/2 bulb (87g)27
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Tarragon1 tsp dried (0.5g)2
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Vermouthnot 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. Mustard + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together587 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Fennel + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together723 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Fennel + chivetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together95 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Fennel + mustardtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together292 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

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

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fennel, olive, butter, pepper, vermouth, lemon, chive):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Kalefits about as well
  4. Mustardthe original

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