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Avocado Salad with Orange-Wasabi Glazed Chicken

"A very flavorful salad accented with sliced grilled chicken that has been glazed with a caramelized orange and wasabi sauce."

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Why it works: Wasabi and lime work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 35 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

4 to 6 servings
Prep25 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Season the chicken breasts with salt and pepper. Grill or pan-cook over medium-high heat, turning once, until the thickest part reaches 165°F (74°C), about 6 to 8 minutes per side. Rest 5 minutes, then slice.

  2. Make the glaze: in a saucepan combine the white sugar, 1/4 cup water, red wine and orange juice. Simmer over medium heat about 10 minutes, until reduced by about half and syrupy.

  3. Remove the glaze from the heat and whisk in the wasabi paste and half of the lime juice. Taste and add hot sauce if desired.

  4. Brush the glaze over the cooked chicken and warm it for 1 to 2 minutes on the grill or in the pan, turning once, until the chicken is hot throughout.

  5. Make the salad: in a bowl, gently toss the diced avocados, tomatoes, red onion and cilantro with the remaining lime juice, a pinch of salt, pepper and hot sauce to taste.

  6. Divide the rinsed and dried salad greens among 4 to 6 plates. Top each with the avocado mixture.

  7. Arrange the sliced glazed chicken over the salads and spoon any remaining glaze on top. Serve right away.

By allrecipes. 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. Wasabi + limetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lime + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Wasabi + avocadotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Tomato + avocadotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,385 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Orange + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together937 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, sugar, red wine, orange, wasabi, tomato, lime):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sugar, red wine, orange, wasabi, tomato, lime. 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).