Skip to main content

Grilled Monterey Squid Salad Recipe

This salad pairs well with Dogfish Head's Aprihop India Pale Ale. This rich, mellow beer starts like a traditional IPA, full flavored and with a distinct bitterness...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Squid and beans work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 21 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, which smells cocoa, roasted. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

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

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Squid + beanstop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  2. Lemon + basiltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,820 recipes

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

  3. Olive + basiltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,868 recipes

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

  4. Avocado + beanstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together375 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Olive + avocadotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,376 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the avocado

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (squid, olive, lemon, sherry, wine, vinegar, basil):

  1. Orangebetter flavor fit
  2. Limebetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  4. Avocadothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against squid, olive, lemon, sherry, wine, vinegar, basil. 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).