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Steak & Chickpea Salad with Harissa Yogurt Dressing

A punchy, filling salad that's still low fat and low gi

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Chickpea and harissa work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 58 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

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

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Chickpea + harissatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Chickpea + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together314 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Chickpea + yogurttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Yogurt + harissatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together49 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Parsley + harissatop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chickpea, onion, parsley, yogurt, harissa):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Limebetter flavor fit
  3. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chickpea, onion, parsley, yogurt, harissa. 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).