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Beetroot & Squash Salad with Horseradish Cream

A rustic and warm root vegetable salad with creamy dressing and lots of healthy watercress leaves - great for a buffet

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Beetroot & Squash Salad with Horseradish Cream

Why it works: Beetroot and butternut squash share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Beetroot & Squash Salad with Horseradish Cream

Serves 12
Prep30 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

282Calories
3 gProtein
19 gFat
27 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Watercress1 cup (34g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Beetrootnot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Horseradishnot in our table0

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. Beetroot + butternut squashtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Butternut squash + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together689 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Onion + butternut squashtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together692 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Beetroot + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,261 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beetroot, butternut squash, red wine, vinegar, sugar, olive, cream):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Kalefits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beetroot, butternut squash, red wine, vinegar, sugar, olive, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.