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Chopped Chicken Garden Salad with Spicy Avocado Dressing

A light refreshing garden salad that’s chock full of chicken, fresh vegetables and topped with a spicy, healthy avocado dressing.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Chopped Chicken Garden Salad with Spicy Avocado Dressing

Why it works: Avocado and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,117 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Chopped Chicken Garden Salad with Spicy Avocado Dressing

Serves 4
Prep15 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

821Calories
65 gProtein
36 gFat
68 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
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Chicken100g cooked165
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Romaine Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Seednot 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 + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Avocado + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together464 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Avocado + jalapenotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together441 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Jalapeno + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,035 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Lime + lettucetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together408 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (avocado, jalapeno, garlic, lime, yogurt, milk, lettuce):

  1. Corianderfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against avocado, jalapeno, garlic, lime, yogurt, milk, lettuce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.