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Mandarin Chicken Saute

"I used my leftover jelly beans in this creative main dish featuring oriental flavors. Quick and easy, it's delicious too."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Mandarin Chicken Saute

Why it works: Sesame and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 293 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Mandarin Chicken Saute

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

480Calories
34 gProtein
18 gFat
46 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Beannot in our table0

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. Sesame + beanstop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together293 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Sesame + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together984 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Rice + beanstop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,017 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + sesametop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together939 recipes

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

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, sesame, rice, vinegar, honey, beans, pepper):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sesame, rice, vinegar, honey, beans, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.