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Hazelnut & Chard Ravioli Salad Recipe

Plump raviolis tossed with toasted hazelnuts, sauteed ribbons of chard, and caramelized onions are at the heart of this ravioli salad recipe. The colorful platter is finished off with a dusting of cheese, snipped chives, and lemon zest. You can prepare most of the components ahead of time.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Chard and butternut squash share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 14 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6.

Ingredients

Contains: milk, 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. Chard + butternut squashtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Onion + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,907 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Olive + chardtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together307 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Olive + parmesan cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Chard + chivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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 (olive, onion, chard, parmesan cheese, hazelnut, butternut squash, chive):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Pumpkinbetter flavor fit
  3. Cherryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, onion, chard, parmesan cheese, hazelnut, butternut squash, chive. 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).