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Roasted Beet Salad with Ricotta Salata and Pistachios

By biggirlssmallkitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pistachio and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 262 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 2 side servings

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By biggirlssmallkitchen. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Pistachio + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together262 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Olive + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,849 recipes

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

  3. Pistachio + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together431 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

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

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Coconutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against pistachio, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).