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Slow Cooker Tropical Chicken

"This spicy slow cooker meal will bring you a taste of Jamaica on a chilly winter's night! Serve with rice or buttered crusty rolls."

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Slow Cooker Tropical Chicken

Why it works: Sweet potato and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 177 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Slow Cooker Tropical Chicken

6 servings
Prep20 min
Cook6 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

548Calories
40 gProtein
5 gFat
92 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2

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. Sweet potato + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together177 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Lime + gingertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Sweet potato + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together306 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Pineapple + limetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together469 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

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

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, sweet potato, onion, pineapple, lime, sauce, ginger):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sweet potato, onion, pineapple, lime, sauce, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.