Name: Oven-Fried Chicken Cobb Salad
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 12 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 6 cups FOR THE CHICKEN FINGERS:; 1 teaspoon Corn Tortilla Chips; 1 teaspoon Kosher Salt; 1 pound Onion Powder; 2 Tablespoons Thin Sliced Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breast, Cut Into Smaller Strips; 1 head Olive Oil; ¼ pounds Kosher Salt To Taste; 4 strips FOR THE SALAD:; 1 Large Head Romaine Lettuce, Cut Into Bite Sized Pieces; ½ cups Prepared Chicken Fingers; ¼ cups Bacon, Cooked Until Crisp Then Chopped; 4 Large Avocado, Peeled, Pitted And Cut Into Bite Sized Pieces; 1 Cherry Tomatoes, Cut In Half If Desired; 2 teaspoons Blue Cheese, Crumbled; 2 teaspoons Hard Boiled Eggs, Peeled And Cut In Half; ¼ cups FOR THE VINAIGRETTE:; ¼ cups Shallot, Minced

Why it works: Lettuce and avocado match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 464 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

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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.

Lettuce + avocadotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together464 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Olive + avocadotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,449 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Lettuce + cherry tomatotop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Avocado + cherry tomatotop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together8 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Onion + avocadotop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,653 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, corn, onion, olive, lettuce, avocado, blue cheese):

Limefits better
Cherryfits better
Coconutfits about as well
Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, corn, onion, olive, lettuce, avocado, blue cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Avocado	1 medium (150g)	240
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Corn Tortilla	1 medium flour (45g)	140
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Blue Cheese	1 oz (28g)	100
Cherry	1 cup (138g)	87
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Shallot	1 tbsp minced (10g)	7
Romaine Lettuce	1 cup shredded (36g)	5
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Salad	not in our table	0

Oven-Fried Chicken Cobb Salad