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Marinated Chicken Salad

"This is an entree size salad with mixed greens and marinated chicken. Serve with your favorite dressing."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Marinated Chicken Salad

Why it works: Vinegar and radish work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 508 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Marinated Chicken Salad

1 serving

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

461Calories
40 gProtein
26 gFat
14 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Olive1 large (4g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Waternot in our table0
Saladnot 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. Vinegar + radishtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together508 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Chicken + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,888 recipes

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

  3. Vinegar + olivetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,297 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  4. Olive + radishtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together164 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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 (chicken, vinegar, olive, sugar, egg):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Cucumberfits better
  4. Radishthe original

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