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Asian Salad Dressing Recipe

This Asian Dressing is a family favorite. Now that our garden is in full gear we are having home grown salads at least once a day. In order to keep things interesting...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sesame and agave share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 40 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Asian Salad Dressing Recipe

1 jar

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

355Calories
2 gProtein
28 gFat
28 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Agave1 tsp (7g)21
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3

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

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sesame + agavetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Olive + sesametop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,111 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Olive + plumtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,266 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Olive + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,456 recipes

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

  5. Plum + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together309 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, sesame, plum, vinegar, agave):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, sesame, plum, vinegar, agave. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.