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Pepper Jelly Glazed Chicken

"This a great and easy way to use pepper jelly. Chicken breasts are glazed with a honey, mustard and pepper jelly sauce, then roasted in the oven."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Pepper Jelly Glazed Chicken

Why it works: Pepper and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,430 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Pepper Jelly Glazed Chicken

4 servings
Prep5 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

240Calories
32 gProtein
4 gFat
19 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3

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. Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Chicken + mustardtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,192 recipes

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

  3. Mustard + honeytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together919 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  5. Pepper + honeytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,990 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the mustard

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Mustardthe original

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