Name: Ham & Horseradish Salad
Prep time: 5 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 3 tbsp soured cream or Greek yogurt; 2 tsp creamed horseradish; 500g left-over boiled potatoes - new or regular is fine; small bunch of chives , snipped; 6 slices of ham (use your favourite), torn; 130g bag of herb salad; 250g pack of cooked beetroot , quartered if large

Why it works: Horseradish and beetroot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 209 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Ham & Horseradish Salad

Serves 4

Prep5 min

Ingredients

3 tbsp soured cream or Greek yogurt
2 tsp creamed horseradish
500g left-over boiled potatoes - new or regular is fine
small bunch of chives , snipped
6 slices of ham (use your favourite), torn
130g bag of herb salad
250g pack of cooked beetroot , quartered if large

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

555Calories

49 gProtein

20 gFat

44 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 8 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Pork	100g cooked	242
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Chive	1 tbsp (3g)	1
Horseradish	not in our table	0
Salad	not in our table	0
Beetroot	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By bbcgoodfood. 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.

Horseradish + beetroottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together209 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Chive + beetroottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together172 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Horseradish + chivetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together113 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Potato + chivetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together611 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Potato + beetroottop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together330 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, horseradish, chive, ham, beetroot):

Mustardfits better
Shallotfits better
Lettucefits better
Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, horseradish, chive, ham, beetroot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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