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Cottage Cheese Salad with Egg and Radish

"My mother made this often when I was growing up. Lovely for breakfast, brunch, or light lunch. Serve this alongside a couple slices of good quality bakery bread, toasted and buttered. Keeping hard-cooked eggs in the fridge makes this easy and quick. You can adjust the amounts of chives and radishes, or even add an extra egg, depending on your taste."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Cottage Cheese Salad with Egg and Radish

Why it works: Chive and radish share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 30 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Cottage Cheese Salad with Egg and Radish

4 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

177Calories
17 gProtein
10 gFat
4 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cottage Cheese1/2 cup (113g) 2%98
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Chive + radishtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cottage cheese + chivetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together23 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Cottage cheese + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Egg + chivetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,624 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Egg + radishtop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

Swap the radish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cottage cheese, egg, chive):

  1. Welsh onionfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Cucumberfits better
  4. Radishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cottage cheese, egg, chive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.