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Harvest Chicken Salad with Apple and Pecans

Perfect for lunch or a light dinner, this chicken salad packs all the flavors of fall in one bite!

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Why it works: Poppy seed and pecans share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 15 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Poppy seed + pecanstop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Yogurt + honeytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together659 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Honey + appletop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together567 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Milk + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,333 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  5. Yogurt + poppy seedtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the poppy seed

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yogurt, milk, apple cider vinegar, honey, pepper, chicken, apple):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  3. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  4. Poppy seedthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against yogurt, milk, apple cider vinegar, honey, pepper, chicken, apple. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).