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Chicken Pasta Salad Recipe with Plums, Feta & Cumin Dressing

By cookincanuck · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Chicken Pasta Salad Recipe with Plums, Feta & Cumin Dressing

Why it works: Agave and pasta share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Chicken Pasta Salad Recipe with Plums, Feta & Cumin Dressing

Serves 6 to 8

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

865Calories
50 gProtein
29 gFat
105 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 15 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Agave1 tsp (7g)21
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Wheatnot 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 cookincanuck. 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. Agave + pastatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Cumin + pastatop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Wheat + pastatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, olive, cumin, agave, pepper, wheat, pasta):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, olive, cumin, agave, pepper, wheat, pasta. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.