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Oven BBQ

"Oven barbequed chicken over mesquite chips, right in your own oven! For added spice, try adding your favorite type of chili pepper when making the sauce."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Beer and red wine share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 31 recipes mention both. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep20 min
Cook1 hr 10 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Cover the hardwood chips with water and soak for 30 minutes, then drain. Wrap the drained chips in a foil packet and poke a few holes in the top.

  2. Season the chicken pieces all over with the black pepper and arrange them skin side up in a baking dish.

  3. In a saucepan, combine the ketchup, brown sugar, beer, distilled white vinegar, red wine, diced onion and diced green bell pepper. Simmer over medium-low heat for 10 minutes, stirring often.

  4. Set the foil packet of chips on the oven floor or a pan below the rack so it smokes during baking.

  5. Pour about half of the sauce over the chicken. Bake uncovered for 30 minutes.

  6. Brush the chicken with more of the sauce and bake another 25 minutes, until the thickest part reaches 165°F (74°C) on a thermometer.

  7. Let the chicken rest for 5 minutes. Warm the remaining sauce and serve it alongside.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Beer + red winetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Onion + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

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

  3. Vinegar + red winetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together569 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Beer + vinegartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together301 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  5. Ketchup + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ketchup, sugar, beer, vinegar, red wine, pepper, chicken):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Mustardbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ketchup, sugar, beer, vinegar, red wine, pepper, chicken. 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).