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Lemon Blueberry Chicken Salad

"Crunchy celery and sweet blueberry dressing flavors this chicken salad set atop mixed salad greens."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Lemon Blueberry Chicken Salad

Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Lemon Blueberry Chicken Salad

2 entrees
Prep20 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

342Calories
35 gProtein
5 gFat
42 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Blueberry1 cup (148g)84
Green Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Celery1 stalk (40g)6

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Celery + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

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

  3. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

  4. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Lemon + blueberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together540 recipes

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

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

Swap the blueberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, onion, celery, pepper, lemon):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Blueberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, onion, celery, pepper, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.