Name: Lemon-Chicken Salad Sandwiches
Ingredients: 2 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves, each about 6 oz.; Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste; 1/2 cup mayonnaise, plus more for serving; 2 tsp. fresh lemon juice; 2 celery stalks, thinly sliced; 3 green onions, white portion only; 20 thin slices sandwich bread

Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Lemon-Chicken Salad Sandwiches

Ingredients

2 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves, each about 6 oz.
Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
1/2 cup mayonnaise, plus more for serving
2 tsp. fresh lemon juice
2 celery stalks, thinly sliced
3 green onions, white portion only
20 thin slices sandwich bread

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

766Calories

52 gProtein

10 gFat

112 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Celery Stalks	1 stalk (40g)	6
Salt	1 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 williamssonoma. 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.

Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Lemon + celerytop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,467 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together16,012 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together18,518 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,814 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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 (chicken, pepper, lemon, celery, bread):

Capsicumfits better
Tomatofits better
Carrotfits better
Onionthe original

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

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