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Almond-Apricot Chicken with Mint Pesto

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Apricot and mint work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 73 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

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Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By epicurious. 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. Apricot + minttop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Goat cheese + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together557 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  3. Chicken + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  4. Almond + apricottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together852 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Almond + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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