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Chicken and Black Bean Salad with Creamy Cumin Lime Dressing

Easy and fast. This salad makes a spectacular lunch for company. Or in my case, it fills up a starving teenager when she’s too hungry to wait for me to cook.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Chicken and Black Bean Salad with Creamy Cumin Lime Dressing

Why it works: Cumin and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,216 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Chicken and Black Bean Salad with Creamy Cumin Lime Dressing

Serves 4
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

436Calories
58 gProtein
6 gFat
39 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Black Bean1/2 cup canned (120g) drained114
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Saladnot in our table0
Pepitanot 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. Cumin + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,216 recipes

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

  2. Beans + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,188 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Beans + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,713 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Tomato + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,272 recipes

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

  5. Cucumber + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,405 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, beans, tomato, yogurt, cumin, lime):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Okrafits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, beans, tomato, yogurt, cumin, lime. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.