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Easy to Do Oven BBQ Chicken

"This is a quick and easy way to make some good barbecued chicken. The honey makes it fairly sweet. Try it with fresh steamed vegetables and some mashed potatoes."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Easy to Do Oven BBQ Chicken

Why it works: Garlic and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 25,665 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Easy to Do Oven BBQ Chicken

6 to 8 servings

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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. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Garlic + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,850 recipes

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

  3. Red wine + clovetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together849 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  4. Olive + chickentop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together11,888 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  5. Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ketchup, honey, red wine, vinegar, garlic, olive, chicken):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  3. Basilbetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ketchup, honey, red wine, vinegar, garlic, olive, 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).