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Summer Chicken Salad

"This is a wonderful chicken salad to prepare for company and serve with croissants and a green salad."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Summer Chicken Salad

Why it works: Mandarin orange and pineapple work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 125 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Summer Chicken Salad

8 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

636Calories
42 gProtein
30 gFat
55 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Chicken100g cooked165
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Mandarin Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4

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. Mandarin orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together125 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Mandarin orange + dilltop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  3. Pineapple + pecanstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together294 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Mandarin orange + pecanstop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Chicken + pecanstop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together194 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Swap the dill

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, mandarin orange, pineapple, pecans, sugar):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Corianderfits better
  4. Dillthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, mandarin orange, pineapple, pecans, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.