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Butterhead Lettuce with Spring Radishes and Peas with White Balsamic Dressing Recipe

This is a "knife and fork" salad with a "creamy"-style dressing. Think of it as a flavorful, more sophisticated spring version of the truck stop favorite iceberg...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and radish share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Butterhead Lettuce with Spring Radishes and Peas with White Balsamic Dressing Recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

318Calories
13 gProtein
20 gFat
22 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By chow. 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. Shallot + radishtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Shallot + peastop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together173 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Olive + peastop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,066 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-hex-3-en-1-ol (freshly cut grass green and herbaceous notes).

  4. Vinegar + radishtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together508 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Olive + shallottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,659 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 white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, egg, shallot, vinegar, peas, radish, pepper):

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, egg, shallot, vinegar, peas, radish, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.