Name: Simple Spring Salad Recipe
Yield: Serves 4.
Ingredients: 1 and 1/2 orange, juice only; 1/2 lemon, juice only; 1/2 small red onion, chopped; 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil; 1/8 teaspoon fine grain salt; 4 big handfuls of salad greens, washed and dried; 1/2 cup walnut halves, toasted; 1/3 cup black olives, (the wrinkly, oily ones), pitted

Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Simple Spring Salad Recipe

Serves 4.

Ingredients

1 and 1/2 orange, juice only
1/2 lemon, juice only
1/2 small red onion, chopped
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/8 teaspoon fine grain salt
4 big handfuls of salad greens, washed and dried
1/2 cup walnut halves, toasted
1/3 cup black olives, (the wrinkly, oily ones), pitted

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

267Calories

4 gProtein

17 gFat

30 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Walnut	1 walnut half (4g)	26
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Olive	1 large (4g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Salad	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together10,634 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Olive + walnuttop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,087 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Lemon + olivetop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,922 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Orange + olivetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,456 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together29,779 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, lemon, olive, walnut):

Lettucefits better
Capsicumfits better
Spinachfits better
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, lemon, olive, walnut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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