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Roasted Chicken Salad Bites

"These mini chicken salad sandwiches look elegant and taste great. Serve on lettuce-lined serving plates."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Roasted Chicken Salad Bites

Why it works: Dill and sunflower share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 55 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Roasted Chicken Salad Bites

24 appetizer sandwiches
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

661Calories
45 gProtein
37 gFat
40 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Red Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Mandarin Orange1 medium (131g)62
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Dill + sunflowertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Pepper + dilltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,630 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Olive + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together698 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + mandarin orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together49 recipes

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

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

Swap the mandarin orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, olive, pepper, dill, grape, sunflower):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Mandarin orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, olive, pepper, dill, grape, sunflower. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.