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Chicken Salad with Pine Nuts and Raisins

"This chicken salad recipe with pine nuts and raisins has a honey mustard style dressing and is topped with onions and croutons. If you don't have olive oil spray, you can just use any non-stick cooking spray."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and pine work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 234 recipes mention both. Both carry anethole, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

The recipe

6 to 8 servings
Prep20 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Chicken + pinetop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together234 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  2. Rosemary + pinetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together65 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Lemon + rosemarytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together845 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Rosemary + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, cream, lemon, honey, rosemary, pepper, chicken):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, cream, lemon, honey, rosemary, pepper, chicken. 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).