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Red Cabbage Salad

This vibrant salad with bacon and blue cheese has contrasting textures and flavours and is a fab way to use up leftovers

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Red Cabbage Salad

Why it works: Red wine and vinegar work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 575 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Red Cabbage Salad

Serves 6
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

250Calories
13 gProtein
12 gFat
24 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
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. Red wine + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together575 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Vinegar + cabbagetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Red wine + blue cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Vinegar + blue cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together193 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (red wine, vinegar, sugar, blue cheese):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against red wine, vinegar, sugar, blue cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.