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Barley Salad with Grilled Chicken, Cranberries and Dill

After cooking barley for the first time this summer, I was hooked. Barley is so easy to cook and unlike most other salads, this salad keeps a few days in the fridge without getting soggy. It’s a robust salad, great for a picnic or as a weekday lunch. I’ve tried quite a few variations and found that barley works with almost anything you have on hand. Try this version first though because it’s delicious!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Barley Salad with Grilled Chicken, Cranberries and Dill

Why it works: Shiitake and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 412 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Barley Salad with Grilled Chicken, Cranberries and Dill

Serves 6
Prep10 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

637Calories
41 gProtein
19 gFat
80 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Barley1 cup cooked (157g)193
Chicken100g cooked165
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Shiitake1/2 cup (73g)34
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4

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. Shiitake + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together412 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  3. Shiitake + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together552 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Barley + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together110 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  5. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

Swap the dill

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (barley, chicken, shiitake, mushroom, onion):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. Dillthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against barley, chicken, shiitake, mushroom, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.