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Curried Chicken Salad

Turmeric tints this familiar Anglo-Indian chicken salad a marigold-yellow color. For a spicier dish, add a touch more fiery cayenne. The salad can be served mounded on lettuce leaves, or stuffed into avocado halves or between slices of bread for sandwiches.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Curried Chicken Salad

Why it works: Rosemary and cumin share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 99 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Curried Chicken Salad

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

735Calories
63 gProtein
37 gFat
34 gCarbs

Counts 16 of 18 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 16 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Cashew1 oz (28g / ~18 nuts)157
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Celery Stalks1 stalk (40g)6
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Leafnot 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 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.

  1. Rosemary + cumintop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together99 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,590 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Pepper + rosemarytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Olive + cumintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,853 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Pepper + cumintop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,382 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

Swap the cumin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pepper, olive, rosemary, white wine, yogurt, cream):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Basilfits better
  4. Cuminthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, olive, rosemary, white wine, yogurt, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.