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Chicory, Bacon & Pear Salad with Honey Dressing

Raid the fruit bowl for this fresh and crunchy salad, pears with bacon make a perfect match

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicory and walnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 35 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

Contains: 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. Chicory + walnuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Pear + honeytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Chicory + lettucetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Lettuce + walnuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together491 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Walnut + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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 (chicory, lamb, lettuce, pear, walnut, olive, honey):

  1. Grapebetter flavor fit
  2. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  3. Figbetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicory, lamb, lettuce, pear, walnut, olive, honey. 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).