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Whiskey & Wheat Berry Salad Recipe

A wheat berry salad recipe inspired by a crostini I tasted in Denver, Colorado made by chef Jennifer Jasinski of Rioja. It features whiskey-soaked golden raisins, adobo-kissed goat cheese, herbs, and toasted pine nuts are tossed with a bit of lettuce.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 937 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes a party or potluck-sized salad.

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By 101cookbooks. 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. Wheat + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together937 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Pepper + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Goat cheese + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together557 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  4. Olive + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,849 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Goat cheese + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together466 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, sugar, goat cheese, sauce, pepper, olive, lemon):

  1. Orangebetter flavor fit
  2. Limebetter flavor fit
  3. Figbetter flavor fit
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, sugar, goat cheese, sauce, pepper, olive, lemon. 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).