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Steak, Beetroot & Asparagus Salad

Steak can be low fat, as this smart midweek salad shows, full of flavour and under 300 calories

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Steak, Beetroot & Asparagus Salad

Why it works: Beetroot and horseradish match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 209 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Steak, Beetroot & Asparagus Salad

Serves 2

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

340Calories
30 gProtein
21 gFat
9 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Asparagus6 spears (90g)27
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Beetrootnot in our table0
Horseradishnot 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. Beetroot + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Asparagus + beetroottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together116 recipes

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

  3. Asparagus + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together704 recipes

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

  4. Asparagus + horseradishtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Horseradish + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,155 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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 (asparagus, beetroot, horseradish, cream):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Cherryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against asparagus, beetroot, horseradish, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.