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Chicken Mango Salsa Salad with Chipotle Lime Vinaigrette

"A delicious, colorful, sweet and spicy salad with diced chicken, a mango pico de gallo salsa, blue cheese, and cranberries in a wonderful chipotle lime vinaigrette. It's almost too pretty to eat...almost."

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Chicken Mango Salsa Salad with Chipotle Lime Vinaigrette

Why it works: Tomato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Chicken Mango Salsa Salad with Chipotle Lime Vinaigrette

6 servings
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1073Calories
53 gProtein
50 gFat
118 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 20 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Mango1 cup diced (165g)99
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Red Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Green Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Yellow Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1

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. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Mango + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Jalapeno + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,035 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Mango + plumtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Plum + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,480 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mango, plum, tomato, jalapeno, lime, olive, sugar):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Cucumberfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mango, plum, tomato, jalapeno, lime, olive, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.