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Chicory, Apple & Goat's Cheese Salad with Warm Fig Dressing

This salad incorporates the best of winter ingredients with a warm fig dressing. If you make this when fresh figs are in season, add some halved ones to the salad

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicory and watercress share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 40 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: milk, 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 + watercresstop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Apple + figtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together237 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Walnut + figtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together373 recipes

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

  4. Apple + cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together292 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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