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Chicken Salad

Fresh and delicious chicken salad made with kefir.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Kefir and chicken work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and 5 recipes mention both. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep20 min

Ingredients

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

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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. Kefir + chickentop 27% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Lemon + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,467 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16,001 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Chicken + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the grape

The recipe marks grape as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (kefir, sugar, lemon, pepper, chicken, celery, onion):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Orangeabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Grapethe original
  4. Mangoabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against kefir, sugar, lemon, pepper, chicken, celery, onion. 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).