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Grilled Tamarind and Orange Glazed Chicken

"Bring some life to your usual chicken dinner. Tamarind concentrate is so easy to use and this recipe is the perfect introduction to it."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and tamarind share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 24 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep20 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

  • Marinade
  • Tamarind glaze

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Whisk the olive oil, herbes de Provence, chopped garlic, salt and black pepper in a bowl. Coat the chicken breasts in the marinade, cover and refrigerate for at least 20 minutes.

  2. Simmer the chicken broth, orange juice, sugar, orange zest, tamarind paste, grated ginger and chile-garlic sauce in a saucepan over medium heat for about 10 minutes until reduced by about half. Remove from heat and stir in the melted butter.

  3. Preheat a grill to medium-high, about 450°F (232°C), and lightly coat the grates with cooking spray.

  4. Shake off excess marinade from the chicken and grill for about 5 minutes per side until the thickest part reaches 165°F (74°C).

  5. Brush both sides of the chicken with the tamarind glaze during the last 2 minutes of grilling. Rest 3 minutes, then serve with the remaining warm glaze spooned over the top.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Orange + tamarindtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Garlic + chickentop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

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

  4. Olive + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

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

  5. Olive + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,184 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, pepper, chicken, orange, sugar, butter, tamarind):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  3. Cardamombetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, pepper, chicken, orange, sugar, butter, tamarind. 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).