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Beetroot, Green Bean & Goat's Cheese Salad

A speedy healthy salad makes the best after-work supper

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Beetroot and cheese work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and 120 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

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

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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. Beetroot + cheesetop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together120 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Shallot + beetroottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together139 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  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 orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, red wine, vinegar, shallot, mustard, green beans, beetroot):

  1. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Pumpkinabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, red wine, vinegar, shallot, mustard, green beans, beetroot. 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).