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Grilled Chicken Breasts with Fresh Strawberry Salsa

"This is a wonderful grilled chicken recipe that is served with a spicy strawberry salsa. A great go to dish for fresh strawberries when in season!"

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Grilled Chicken Breasts with Fresh Strawberry Salsa

Why it works: Garlic and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Grilled Chicken Breasts with Fresh Strawberry Salsa

4 chicken breasts
Prep25 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

611Calories
52 gProtein
20 gFat
60 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Raspberry1 cup (123g)64
Strawberry1 cup (152g)49
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Peppermintnot 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. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Raspberry + minttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together180 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Chicken + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,850 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  5. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

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

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pepper, clove, garlic, vinegar, olive, mint):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, clove, garlic, vinegar, olive, mint. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.