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Chicken Strawberry Spinach Salad with Ginger-Lime Dressing

"This salad is as good-looking as it is tasty!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lime and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,621 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

2 servings
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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. Lime + gingertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Garlic + spinachtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,433 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  3. Chicken + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  4. Corn + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together773 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Garlic + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,402 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, chicken, garlic, lime, ginger, milk, spinach):

  1. Peanutbetter flavor fit
  2. Sesamebetter flavor fit
  3. Beansbetter flavor fit
  4. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, chicken, garlic, lime, ginger, milk, spinach. 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).