Name: Red Chicory, Pear & Hazelnut Salad
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 2 heads of red chicory , or white if not available; 2 ripe red Williams pears; a good handful of rocket leaves; 25g hazelnuts , toasted and chopped; 1 tsp green peppercorns in brine, optional; 2 tbsp hazelnut or olive oil; 2 tbsp mild salad oil, such as sunflower oil or safflower oil; 1 tsp sherry or cider vinegar

Why it works: Chicory and hazelnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

2 heads of red chicory, or white if not available
2 ripe red Williams pears
a good handful of rocket leaves
25g hazelnuts, toasted and chopped
1 tsp green peppercorns in brine, optional
2 tbsp hazelnut or olive oil
2 tbsp mild salad oil, such as sunflower oil or safflower oil
1 tsp sherry or cider vinegar

Directions

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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.

Chicory + hazelnuttop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together9 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Pear + sherrytop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together41 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).
Hazelnut + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together28 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Pear + hazelnuttop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together35 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Chicory + sunflowertop 11% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together4 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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