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Chicken Pasta Salad with Cashews and Dried Cranberries

"Everyone always loves this delicious pasta salad combining fruit, crunchy cashews, scallions, celery, and water chestnuts with chicken. You can't go wrong with this recipe!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Chicken Pasta Salad with Cashews and Dried Cranberries

Why it works: Pasta and water chestnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Chicken Pasta Salad with Cashews and Dried Cranberries

6 servings
Prep35 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

856Calories
54 gProtein
24 gFat
111 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Chicken100g cooked165
Cashew1 oz (28g / ~18 nuts)157
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Green Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Red Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Salad Dressingnot 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.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pasta + water chestnuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Water chestnut + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together205 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Water chestnut + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together78 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Pasta + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together331 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pasta, chicken, water chestnut, celery, onion):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pasta, chicken, water chestnut, celery, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.