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Asian Chicken Noodle Salad

"This easy to prepare noodle salad has plenty of seeds, nuts, greens, chicken, and vegetables."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Asian Chicken Noodle Salad

Why it works: Pasta and pine match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 136 recipes. Both carry maltol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

Asian Chicken Noodle Salad

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1381Calories
61 gProtein
64 gFat
139 gCarbs

Counts 15 of 17 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 15 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Bok Choy1 cup (70g)9
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Meatnot in our table0
Water Chestnutnot 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.

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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. Pasta + pinetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together136 recipes

    Shared aroma: maltol (caramel, sweet).

  2. Sunflower + pinetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Pasta + sunflowertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Pasta + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,961 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Onion + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pasta, butter, sunflower, pine, onion, chicken, meat):

  1. Cashew nutfits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Chickpeafits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pasta, butter, sunflower, pine, onion, chicken, meat. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.