Skip to main content

Chicken & Squash Salad

This is a great way of using up leftover roast chicken and stuffing.

Jump to recipe ↓
Chicken & Squash Salad

Why it works: Oregano and cumin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 983 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Chicken & Squash Salad

Serves 4

Ingredients

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

466Calories
40 gProtein
20 gFat
33 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 16 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Chickpea1/2 cup canned (120g) drained134
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Seednot in our table0
Coriandernot in our table0
Stuffingnot 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 jamieoliver. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Oregano + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together983 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Butternut squash + chickpeatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Coriander + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,866 recipes

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

  4. Chickpea + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together473 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Coriander + chickpeatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together451 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butternut squash, coriander, oregano, pepper, olive, chickpea, cumin):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Cherryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against butternut squash, coriander, oregano, pepper, olive, chickpea, cumin. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.