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Chicory, Tangerine, and Pomegranate Salad Recipe

This salad combines the best flavors of fall for an elegant dish you'll wish you could re-create year-round.What to buy: Whole heads of chicory are ideal for...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and chicory share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 44 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

8 to 10 servings

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By chow. 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.

  1. Mustard + chicorytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Shallot + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together842 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Vinegar + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Chicory + pomegranatetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Red wine + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together569 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

Vinegar and mustard share little aroma chemistry, yet 14,067 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (red wine, vinegar, sugar, tangerine, mustard, pepper, olive):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Broccoliabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against red wine, vinegar, sugar, tangerine, mustard, pepper, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).