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Warm Chicken Salad

This chicken salad recipe makes a lovely main meal for a hot day, or take some to work and be the envy of your colleagues

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Warm Chicken Salad

Why it works: Chicken and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,888 recipes. Both carry acetic acid hexyl ester, which smells sweet, green. The science ↓

Warm Chicken Salad

Serves 2
Prep5 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

400Calories
38 gProtein
26 gFat
0 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Saladnot in our table0
Beetrootnot 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 bbcgoodfood. 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. Chicken + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,888 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  2. Olive + beetroottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together965 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  3. Olive + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,297 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  4. Olive + cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,802 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Vinegar + cheesetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

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

Swap the beetroot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, olive, vinegar, cheese):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Beetrootthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, olive, vinegar, cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.