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Fennel & Raisin Salad with Walnut Croutons

By biggirlssmallkitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Fennel and walnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 74 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4-6, as a side

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat, 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. Fennel + walnuttop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together74 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Bread + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Walnut + lettucetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together491 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Olive + walnuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Olive + lettucetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fennel, olive, walnut, bread, butter, raisin, apple cider vinegar):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Potatoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fennel, olive, walnut, bread, butter, raisin, apple cider vinegar. 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).