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Chicken and Wild Rice Salad

This whole grain salad is packed with vegetables, nuts, fruit, chicken and cheese. All of the delicious flavors and textures will keep you coming back for more!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Chicken and Wild Rice Salad

Why it works: Celery and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Chicken and Wild Rice Salad

Serves 6
Prep15 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

662Calories
48 gProtein
15 gFat
90 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 15 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Wild Rice1 cup cooked (164g)166
Chicken100g cooked165
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Agave1 tsp (7g)21
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
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. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Wild rice + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Wild rice + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Shallot + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Wild rice + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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 (wild rice, chicken, shallot, celery, carrot, almond, goat cheese):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against wild rice, chicken, shallot, celery, carrot, almond, goat cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.