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Brie and Mandarin Salad

"Mandarin and Brie cheese salad with macadamias and an orange and champagne dressing."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Brie and Mandarin Salad

Why it works: Orange and mandarin orange share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 87 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Brie and Mandarin Salad

6 servings
Prep10 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

240Calories
10 gProtein
10 gFat
31 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 8 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Mandarin Orange1 medium (131g)62
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Champagnenot in our table0
Saladnot in our table0
Brienot in our table0
Macadamia Nutnot 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. Orange + mandarin orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Brie + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together161 recipes

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

  3. Mustard + cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,805 recipes

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

  4. Mustard + macadamia nuttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Mustard + mandarin orangetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the macadamia nut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (champagne, orange, mustard, mandarin orange, brie, cheese):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Walnutfits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Macadamia nutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against champagne, orange, mustard, mandarin orange, brie, cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.