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New Potato & Roasted Pepper Salad

James Martin's hearty salad is full of flavour and it couldn’t be easier to make - substantial but with a minimum of preparation

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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New Potato & Roasted Pepper Salad

Why it works: Lemon and basil match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,823 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

New Potato & Roasted Pepper Salad

Serves 4

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

394Calories
12 gProtein
20 gFat
44 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Leafnot 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 + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,823 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Mustard + spinachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together503 recipes

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

  4. Olive + basiltop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,063 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Pepper + basiltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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 (olive, lemon, mustard, spinach, pepper, basil):

  1. Broccolifits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Eggplantfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, lemon, mustard, spinach, pepper, basil. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.