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Beef Salad with Ginger Soy Dressing

"Fill your plate with colorful veggies and greens, topped with lean sliced beef. Add a gingery soy dressing and this delicious salad will become a family favorite."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Beef Salad with Ginger Soy Dressing

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Beef Salad with Ginger Soy Dressing

4 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

685Calories
43 gProtein
34 gFat
54 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 14 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Edamame1/2 cup (78g) shelled120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Green Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Soybean Oilnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Saladnot 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.

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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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Ginger + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,402 recipes

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

  3. Soybean + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Onion + beeftop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Ginger + soybeantop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (soybean, rice, vinegar, sauce, onion, garlic, beef):

  1. Cuminfits about as well
  2. Gingerthe original
  3. Corianderfits about as well
  4. Celeryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against soybean, rice, vinegar, sauce, onion, garlic, beef. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.