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Fall Fig Salad Recipe

Figs are easy to use and delicious with the right Fall pairings!

By chow · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Fig and lettuce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 26 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

The recipe

2 large salads or 4 small dinner salads

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By chow. 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. Fig + lettucetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together26 recipes

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

  2. Fig + peartop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together63 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Lettuce + pomegranatetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together35 recipes

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

  4. Pear + blackberrytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Fig + pomegranatetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hydroxybutan-2-one (cheesy, buttery).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pomegranate

The recipe marks pomegranate as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fig, lettuce, ham, pear, brie, blackberry, olive):

  1. Applebetter flavor fit
  2. Grapebetter flavor fit
  3. Peachbetter flavor fit
  4. Pomegranatethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fig, lettuce, ham, pear, brie, blackberry, 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).