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Watercress and Grilled Pineapple Salad with Avocado and Sour Orange Dressing Recipe

Watercress is peppery, delicious, and full of beta carotene, calcium, and lots of other vitamins and minerals.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Watercress and avocado share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 44 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Watercress and Grilled Pineapple Salad with Avocado and Sour Orange Dressing Recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

674Calories
8 gProtein
37 gFat
92 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 16 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Sour Orange1 medium (131g)62
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Watercress1 cup (34g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pepitanot 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 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. Watercress + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Avocado + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Carrot + orangetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together737 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Pineapple + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Pumpkin + maple syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together256 recipes

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

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

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pumpkin, watercress, carrot, avocado, orange, maple syrup, olive):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Cherryfits better
  3. Cranberryfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pumpkin, watercress, carrot, avocado, orange, maple syrup, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.