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Slow Cooker Orange Chicken

"Chicken breasts with orange soda and soy sauce served over rice. Gives chicken a wonderful flavor, and it is great for those days when you don't have a lot of time to prepare a meal."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Slow Cooker Orange Chicken

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

Slow Cooker Orange Chicken

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook6 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

380Calories
36 gProtein
4 gFat
46 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
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. Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

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

  2. Orange + ricetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Sauce + ricetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,396 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Chicken + saucetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,513 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Chicken + orangetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together988 recipes

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

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

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

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

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