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Chickpea Salad

"A simple and delicious salad of chickpeas (garbanzo beans), onions, cucumber, tomato and vinegar."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Chickpea Salad

Why it works: Chickpea and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 229 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Chickpea Salad

4 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

219Calories
10 gProtein
3 gFat
41 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chickpea1/2 cup canned (120g) drained134
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Beannot 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. Chickpea + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together229 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Beans + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,713 recipes

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

  3. Chickpea + cucumbertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together125 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Chickpea + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together538 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Cucumber + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,405 recipes

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

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chickpea, beans, cucumber, tomato, red wine, vinegar):

  1. Lettucefits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Eggplantfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chickpea, beans, cucumber, tomato, red wine, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.