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Apple & Bacon Salad

A perfect November salad, with seasonal cruncy apples, hazelnuts and celeriac

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Apple & Bacon Salad

Why it works: Apple and cider are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,238 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Apple & Bacon Salad

Serves 4
Prep20 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

275Calories
4 gProtein
17 gFat
29 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 12 ingredients. The other 6 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
French Beannot in our table0
Celeriacnot in our table0
Hazelnutnot in our table0
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Saladnot in our table0
Cidernot 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. Apple + cidertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,238 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Beans + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Hazelnut + sunflowertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together28 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Sunflower + mustardtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together233 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Lemon + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together352 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, apple, hazelnut, sunflower, cider, vinegar, mustard):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Plumfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, apple, hazelnut, sunflower, cider, vinegar, mustard. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.