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Bacon Buffalo Chicken Salad with Goat & Blue Cheese Croutons

Spicy and smokey bacon Buffalo chicken salad with creamy goat cheese and blue cheese croutons.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Blue cheese and almond work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and 24 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, which smells cocoa, roasted. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep20 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By tastykitchen. 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. Blue cheese + almondtop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  2. Goat cheese + blue cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Garlic + chickentop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  4. Avocado + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Garlic + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,044 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (goat cheese, blue cheese, garlic, pepper, egg, avocado, chicken):

  1. Beansbetter flavor fit
  2. Walnutbetter flavor fit
  3. Sesamebetter flavor fit
  4. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against goat cheese, blue cheese, garlic, pepper, egg, avocado, chicken. 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).