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Grilled Chicken Salad with Balsamic Dressing

A lean and light chicken salad that is filling and satisfying enough to serve as a meal. Garnish with Parmesan Pepperoncini Crisps for a cheesy and spicy kick. See my TastyKitchen recipe box for Parmesan Pepperoncini Crisps recipe.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Grilled Chicken Salad with Balsamic Dressing

Why it works: Avocado and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 299 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Grilled Chicken Salad with Balsamic Dressing

Serves 6
Prep30 min
Cook6 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

741Calories
24 gProtein
52 gFat
55 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 14 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Olive1 large (4g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saladnot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Avocado + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together299 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Avocado + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Garlic + cucumbertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,556 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Cucumber + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

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

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, buttermilk, garlic, pepper, avocado, cucumber, olive):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, buttermilk, garlic, pepper, avocado, cucumber, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.