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Birdman's Caesar Salad Dressing

"Fast, easy and impressive. Add to romaine lettuce, bacon, Parmesan cheese and homemade croutons. You can always kick up your salad a notch and add sliced mushrooms and red onions."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Birdman's Caesar Salad Dressing

Why it works: Mustard and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,053 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Birdman's Caesar Salad Dressing

2 cups
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

393Calories
18 gProtein
26 gFat
22 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saucenot 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 allrecipes. 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. Mustard + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Mustard + clovetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,829 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  3. Clove + red winetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together849 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  4. Lemon + garlictop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,893 recipes

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

  5. Parmesan cheese + red winetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together177 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar, mustard, lemon, parmesan cheese, clove, red wine):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, mustard, lemon, parmesan cheese, clove, red wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.