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Chinese Chicken Salad Recipe

We've been eating quite a lot of salad lately, and being the protein addict that I am, I'm constantly looking for new ways to make it into a full dinner.This...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and jicama share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 26 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Chinese Chicken Salad Recipe

1 salad

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

343Calories
33 gProtein
17 gFat
13 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Jicama1 cup (120g)46
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Romaine Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Salad Dressingnot 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 chow. 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. Lettuce + jicamatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Jicama + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Lettuce + sesametop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together193 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Jicama + sesametop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Lettuce + shallottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together157 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, lettuce, jicama, sesame):

  1. Welsh onionfits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Broccolifits better
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, lettuce, jicama, sesame. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.