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Peanut Butter Sauce Chicken

"An invention of mine to make use of some leftover chicken breasts. Its ingredients mainly belong to the Far-Eastern cuisine, but it also has a slight Latin twist and a Lebanese hint! ENJOY"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Peanut Butter Sauce Chicken

Why it works: Sesame and peanut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 349 recipes. Both carry 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

Peanut Butter Sauce Chicken

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

658Calories
44 gProtein
51 gFat
12 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Chicken100g cooked165
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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 + peanuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together349 recipes

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

  2. Garlic + peanuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together877 recipes

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

  3. Sesame + garlictop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,000 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Nuts + peanuttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together81 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Sesame + pinetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sesame, garlic, pine, chicken, peanut, butter, sauce):

  1. Cashew nutfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sesame, garlic, pine, chicken, peanut, butter, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.