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Summer Salad with Anchovy Dressing

A filling main-meal salad bursting with fresh veg - just leave out the anchovies for a veggie version

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Summer Salad with Anchovy Dressing

Why it works: Cherry tomato and lettuce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Summer Salad with Anchovy Dressing

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

510Calories
15 gProtein
20 gFat
72 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Olive1 large (4g)4
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 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. Cherry tomato + lettucetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Green beans + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81 recipes

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

  3. Olive + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

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

  4. Potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Potato + lettucetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together322 recipes

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

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

Swap the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (green beans, potato, egg, olive, lettuce, red wine, vinegar):

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Cherryfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against green beans, potato, egg, olive, lettuce, red wine, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.