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Vegan Carrot, Broccoli and Bean Shoot Salad Recipe

This zesty carrot, broccoli and bean shoot salad fits the piggy bill, with a well coated mix of carrots, broccoli, cucumber and bean shoots that creates a crunchy...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and mung bean share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 34 recipes mention both. Both carry methyleugenol, which smells clove, spice. The science ↓

The recipe

6-8

Ingredients

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

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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. Carrot + mung beantop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  2. Coriander + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,536 recipes

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

  3. Mung bean + sesametop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).

  4. Broccoli + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together372 recipes

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

  5. Broccoli + cucumbertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together431 recipes

    Shared aroma: 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 onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, broccoli, mung bean, cucumber, coriander, lime, sesame):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  3. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, broccoli, mung bean, cucumber, coriander, lime, sesame. 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).