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Grilled Chicken, Tomato and Baby Greens Salad with Blue Cheese

"Grilled chicken is sliced and tossed with fresh salad greens, tomatoes, bacon bits and blue cheese, then dressed with creamy blue cheese dressing."

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Why it works: Chicken and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 6,027 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

3 servings
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat a grill or grill pan to medium-high, about 450°F (230°C), and lightly brush the grates with olive oil.

  2. Pat the chicken breasts dry, rub them with a little olive oil, and season both sides generously with salt and ground black pepper.

  3. Grill the chicken for 6 to 7 minutes per side, until it reaches 165°F (74°C) in the thickest part. Let it rest 5 minutes, then slice it into strips.

  4. While the chicken rests, empty the DOLE Extra Veggie with Grape Tomatoes package into a large bowl.

  5. Add the cubed avocado, crumbled bacon, chopped hard-cooked egg and crumbled blue cheese to the bowl.

  6. Add blue cheese dressing a little at a time, tossing until the salad is lightly coated to your taste.

  7. Divide the salad among 3 plates and top each with sliced grilled chicken. Serve right away.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Chicken + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Tomato + avocadotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,385 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Olive + avocadotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,376 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Chicken + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the avocado

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, olive, pepper, grape, tomato, egg, blue cheese):

  1. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  2. Mangoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Lemonabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Avocadothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, olive, pepper, grape, tomato, egg, blue cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).