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Mad Hatter Salad

"A mixture of cole slaw, green onions and broccoli combined with a dry mixture and a delicious dressing to create a wonderful salad that everyone will want the recipe for. Great for family, church, or barbeque gatherings!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Mad Hatter Salad

Why it works: Broccoli and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 206 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Mad Hatter Salad

12 servings
Prep20 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

718Calories
43 gProtein
44 gFat
42 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3

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. Broccoli + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together206 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Almond + sunflowertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Broccoli + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together146 recipes

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

  4. Onion + broccolitop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Onion + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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 (butter, broccoli, chicken, almond, sunflower, sugar, apple cider vinegar):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Beetrootfits better
  3. Kalefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, broccoli, chicken, almond, sunflower, sugar, apple cider vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.