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Liberian Style Collard Greens

"This is a delicious twist on a soul food staple! They are never bitter. I got the recipe from a Liberian restaurant. You may think the ingredients are strange, but they come together perfectly. You may want to adjust the amounts to your taste. When cooking something like greens, eyeballing is the best measurement. The longer you cook these, the more the flavors mesh and the better they taste."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Liberian Style Collard Greens

Why it works: Chicken and peanut work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 541 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

Liberian Style Collard Greens

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook2 hr 10 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. Chicken + peanuttop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together541 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  2. Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. Peanut + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,754 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  5. Peanut + peppertop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together668 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 peanut

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

  1. Peanutthe original
  2. Beansabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Sesameabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Lima beansabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, butter, 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).