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Chicken Breasts with Lentil-Radish-Mint Salad

Peppery radishes and refreshing mint deliver bright spring flavors to healthful chicken breasts. A quick side dish of lentils dressed in the same dressing that sauces the chicken makes this a complete, protein-rich meal.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Lentils and chicken work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 202 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanol, which smells resin, flower. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Contains: wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Lentils + chickentop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together202 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  2. Celery + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,160 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Radish + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together296 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Onion + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

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

  5. Lentils + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together127 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lentils, red wine, vinegar, celery, radish, mint, mustard):

  1. Cucumberbetter flavor fit
  2. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  3. Broccolibetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lentils, red wine, vinegar, celery, radish, mint, mustard. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).