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Grilled Chicken Salad with Candied Pecans

This is one of my go-to salads when I’m in the mood for something both sweet and savory!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Grilled Chicken Salad with Candied Pecans

Why it works: Lemon and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,950 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Grilled Chicken Salad with Candied Pecans

Serves 1
Prep2 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

374Calories
32 gProtein
19 gFat
19 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 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
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Pecan1 half (4g)20
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
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. Lemon + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

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

  2. Pecans + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Lemon + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Chicken + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,888 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  5. Pecans + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together716 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Swap the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, lemon, olive, vinegar, sugar, cinnamon):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Cashew nutfits better
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, lemon, olive, vinegar, sugar, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.