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Maple Glazed Chicken with Sweet Potatoes

"A sweet and slightly tangy option for chicken and potatoes. This is a favorite in our house."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Maple Glazed Chicken with Sweet Potatoes

Why it works: Chicken and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,814 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Maple Glazed Chicken with Sweet Potatoes

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

791Calories
62 gProtein
32 gFat
60 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Onion1 medium (110g)44

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

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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. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  2. Sweet potato + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together960 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Sweet potato + maple syruptop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Sweet potato + chickentop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together320 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Maple syrup + oniontop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together262 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, chicken, maple syrup):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

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