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Chicken Salad with Apple

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Why it works: Cucumber and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 264 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Chicken Salad with Apple

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Steam chicken and when cooked remove flesh from carcass, discarding skin. While still warm toss chicken meat in bowl with vinaigrette mixed with CSR White Sugar.

  2. Wash cucumber and score skin with prongs of fork; slice across into rounds. Slice capsicum into thin strips. Cut apple into quarters, remove core and slice quarters across into pieces . Add cucumber, capsicum, apple, celery and spring onion to chicken in bowl.

  3. Beat curry paste into mayonnaise and pour over chicken salad. Mix carefully, coating all surfaces. Cover and chill overnight.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

453Calories
40 gProtein
10 gFat
53 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
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Capsicumnot in our table0
Seednot 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.

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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. Cucumber + shallottop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together264 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Cucumber + capsicumtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,633 recipes

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

  3. Capsicum + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,771 recipes

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

  4. Capsicum + shallottop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,984 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, sugar, cucumber, capsicum, celery, onion, shallot):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sugar, cucumber, capsicum, celery, onion, shallot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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