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Cheshire Cheese, Spinach & Watercress Salad

This salad has everything– calcium, protein and Vitamin C for a healthy diet, plus colour, crunch and flavour for a healthy appetite.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Watercress and cheese work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and 85 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

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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.

  1. Watercress + cheesetop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  2. Mustard + watercresstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together293 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Spinach + watercresstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Orange + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,125 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Olive + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,184 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, mustard, onion, spinach, watercress, cheese, almond):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Limeabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Cherryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, mustard, onion, spinach, watercress, cheese, almond. 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).