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Lemon-Lime Chicken Broil

"This is a quick and easy (and very tasty!) prep for chicken breasts. Serve with a green salad and a rice dish."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Lemon-Lime Chicken Broil

Why it works: Lemon and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,289 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Lemon-Lime Chicken Broil

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

307Calories
32 gProtein
17 gFat
8 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lemon + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,289 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + chickentop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,092 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Lime + chickentop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,581 recipes

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

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, chicken):

  1. Limethe original
  2. Orangefits about as well
  3. Avocadofits less well
  4. Coconutfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.