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The Best Barbequed Chicken Ever

"This chicken is marinated for 12 to 18 hours, then cooked on a grill. It is so tender and flavorful, you won't want to stop at just one piece! The marinade is easy to double if you need to make more! Note: This recipe calls for chicken breasts, but you can use any chicken parts you like. If you're using skinless, boneless chicken breasts as per this recipe, cut marinating time in half (6 to 9 hours)!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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The Best Barbequed Chicken Ever

Why it works: Lemon and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,289 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The Best Barbequed Chicken Ever

6 servings
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Lemon + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,289 recipes

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

  2. Lime + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,411 recipes

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

  3. Chicken + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,850 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + garlictop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,893 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,092 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

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

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Coconutabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Mangoabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, lime, sauce, garlic. 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).