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Yummy Orange Chicken and Rice

"Grilled or roasted chicken simmered in orange marmalade with delicious orange slices and crispy sugar snap peas served over Minute White or Brown rice."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Yummy Orange Chicken and Rice

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 ↓

Yummy Orange Chicken and Rice

4 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

513Calories
38 gProtein
5 gFat
79 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
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. Peas + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,434 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Chicken + peastop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,528 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Orange + peastop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together123 recipes

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

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

Swap the orange

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

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Pumpkinfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Orangethe original

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