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Skillet Sweet and Tangy Chicken

"This tangy sweet 'n sour sauce with tomato, brown sugar and Worcestershire, is a perfect mate with quickly sauteed chicken breasts. Serve with mashed potatoes and buttered green beans."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Skillet Sweet and Tangy Chicken

Why it works: Chicken and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,769 recipes mention both. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

Skillet Sweet and Tangy Chicken

4 servings
Cook20 min

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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. Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,769 recipes

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

  2. Tomato + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Chicken + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together5,469 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 tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, sugar, vinegar, sauce, rice):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Mustardbetter flavor fit
  3. Cucumberabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sugar, vinegar, sauce, rice. 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).