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Sweet Pea Salad

A super green leaf salad with sugar snaps, cress and petit pois dressed in yogurt, mint and chives

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Sweet Pea Salad

Why it works: Lettuce and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 261 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Sweet Pea Salad

Serves 6 - 8
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

189Calories
19 gProtein
1 gFat
26 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Pea Shootsnot in our table0
Peppermintnot 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. Lettuce + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together261 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Peas + minttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Peas + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,293 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Lettuce + minttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together569 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Peas + chivetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, peas, lettuce, chive, yogurt, white wine, vinegar):

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Capersfits about as well
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, peas, lettuce, chive, yogurt, white wine, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.