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Twisted Chicken Salad with Tostadas

"This easy chicken salad includes diced jalapenos, which make it spicy and delicious. You can eat it with crackers, but it tastes much better with tostadas."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Twisted Chicken Salad with Tostadas

Why it works: Corn and jalapeno work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 494 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Twisted Chicken Salad with Tostadas

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

516Calories
41 gProtein
26 gFat
27 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Corn Tortilla1 medium flour (45g)140
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
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.

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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. Corn + jalapenotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together494 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Corn + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Corn + chickentop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,666 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Jalapeno + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

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

Swap the jalapeno

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

  1. Basilfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Corianderfits better
  4. Jalapenothe original

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