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Fresh Pea Salad Recipe

A pea salad jazzed up with spicy mint-date dressing and tossed with shredded romaine and toasted pumpkin seeds for crunch and texture. A tasty, off-beat, almost burner-free recipe.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Fresh Pea Salad Recipe

Why it works: Mint and peas are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,137 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Fresh Pea Salad Recipe

Serves 2 - 4.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

145Calories
6 gProtein
0 gFat
34 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 8 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Dates1 date (24g) medjool66
Peas1/2 cup (72g)62
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Romaine Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Peppermintnot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Seednot 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 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.

  1. Mint + peastop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Mint + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,998 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Dates + pumpkintop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Peas + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,293 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Peas + pumpkintop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together89 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Swap the dates

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mint, lemon, peas, lettuce, pumpkin):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Datesthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mint, lemon, peas, lettuce, pumpkin. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.