Name: Crunchy Beetroot Slaw with Grilled Chicken
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 2 skinless chicken breasts , flattened slightly; 2 tbsp olive oil; 1 red eating apple , peeled; 1 tbsp lemon juice; 1 raw beetroot , peeled; leaves from the beetroot (if you have them), washed; handful rocket leaves; 50g toasted hazelnuts , very roughly chopped; 2 tbsp red wine vinegar

Why it works: Beetroot and hazelnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 24 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Crunchy Beetroot Slaw with Grilled Chicken

Serves 2

Prep20 min

Cook20 min

Ingredients

2 skinless chicken breasts , flattened slightly
2 tbsp olive oil
1 red eating apple , peeled
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 raw beetroot , peeled
leaves from the beetroot (if you have them), washed
handful rocket leaves
50g toasted hazelnuts , very roughly chopped
2 tbsp red wine vinegar

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

394Calories

32 gProtein

18 gFat

29 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Apple	1 medium (182g)	95
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Beetroot	not in our table	0
Hazelnut	not in our table	0

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.

Beetroot + hazelnuttop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together24 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,922 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Olive + hazelnuttop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together290 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Chicken + olivetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,888 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).
Apple + red winetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together148 recipes

Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

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 (chicken, olive, apple, beetroot, hazelnut, red wine, vinegar):

Pearfits better
Plumfits better
Cherryfits better
Lemonthe original

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

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