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Herby Celery & Bulghar Salad

This speedy salad will keep in the fridge for a few days - a great healthy lunch or snack to have on hand

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Herby Celery & Bulghar Salad

Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Herby Celery & Bulghar Salad

Serves 6
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

307Calories
3 gProtein
15 gFat
47 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 11 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Pomegranate1/2 cup seeds (87g)72
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Tarragon1 tsp dried (0.5g)2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Wheatnot in our table0
Hazelnutnot in our table0
Seednot in our table0
Peppermintnot 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 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.

  1. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pomegranate + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together83 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Celery + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

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

  5. Hazelnut + pomegranatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, celery, lemon, olive, hazelnut, pomegranate, parsley):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, celery, lemon, olive, hazelnut, pomegranate, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.