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Orange Chicken with Green Onions and Walnuts

"Tender chicken thighs are slow cooked and infused with the sweet and sour flavors of orange marmalade and teriyaki sauce, and served over hot cooked rice."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Orange Chicken with Green Onions and Walnuts

Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Orange Chicken with Green Onions and Walnuts

8 servings
Prep10 min
Cook9 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

962Calories
52 gProtein
8 gFat
166 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Saucenot 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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

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

  3. Clove + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,987 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Chicken + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,850 recipes

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

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

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

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, sauce, clove, garlic, onion, walnut, rice):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sauce, clove, garlic, onion, walnut, rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.