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Cold Roast Beef with Beetroot Salad & Horseradish Cream

Turn your leftover sunday roast into this impressive Monday night salad

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Cold Roast Beef with Beetroot Salad & Horseradish Cream

Why it works: Watercress and horseradish share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 66 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Cold Roast Beef with Beetroot Salad & Horseradish Cream

Serves 4

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

423Calories
28 gProtein
29 gFat
7 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Watercress1 cup (34g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Beetrootnot 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. Watercress + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together66 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Beetroot + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Beetroot + watercresstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together143 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Shallot + watercresstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Beetroot + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together139 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the beetroot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, shallot, watercress, sherry, vinegar, olive, horseradish):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Chivefits about as well
  3. Beetrootthe original
  4. Welsh onionfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, shallot, watercress, sherry, vinegar, olive, horseradish. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.