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Easy Indian-Style Chicken

"This is an easy and authentic-tasting Indian dish that the entire family will love! Tastes great with plain basmati rice topped with a couple tablespoons of yogurt (especially if you made the chicken spicy!)"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Easy Indian-Style Chicken

Why it works: Cumin and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 3,272 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Easy Indian-Style Chicken

4 servings
Prep20 min
Cook30 min

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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. Cumin + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,272 recipes

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

  2. Cumin + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,498 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Cumin + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,382 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  4. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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 (cumin, tomato, chicken, coconut, milk, sugar, pepper):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Sweet potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Okrabetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cumin, tomato, chicken, coconut, milk, sugar, pepper. 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).