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Chicken & Squash Salad

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

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Why it works: Chickpea and lettuce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 48 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

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Serves 4

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By jamieoliver. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Chickpea + lettucetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Oregano + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together983 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Coriander + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,866 recipes

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

  4. Chickpea + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together473 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Coriander + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,498 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the butternut squash

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

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  3. Orangebetter flavor fit
  4. Butternut squashthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against coriander, oregano, pepper, olive, chickpea, cumin, lemon. 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).