Name: Beetroot, Goat's Cheese & Anchovy Salad
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 600g cooked and peeled beetroot (vacuum packs are easiest to use); 4 tbsp redcurrant jelly; 3 tbsp red wine vinegar; 85g watercress; 250g crumbly British goat's cheese (such as Ragstone from cheese shops, or Capricorn from supermarkets); 12 small white marinated anchovies , from the deli counter; 2 tbsp olive oil; 6 lemon wedges; soda bread , to serve

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 6

Ingredients

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

600g cooked and peeled beetroot (vacuum packs are easiest to use)
4 tbsp redcurrant jelly
3 tbsp red wine vinegar
85g watercress
250g crumbly British goat's cheese (such as Ragstone from cheese shops, or Capricorn from supermarkets)
12 small white marinated anchovies, from the deli counter
2 tbsp olive oil
6 lemon wedges
soda bread, to serve

Directions

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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.

Beetroot + cheesetop 17% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together120 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Beetroot + watercresstop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together143 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Cheese + breadtop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together2,130 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Watercress + lemontop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together579 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Red wine + vinegartop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together569 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beetroot, red wine, vinegar, watercress, cheese, olive, bread):

Pearbetter flavor fit
Applebetter flavor fit
Grapebetter flavor fit
Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beetroot, red wine, vinegar, watercress, cheese, olive, bread. 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).

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