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Beer-splashed Jerk Chicken with Chargrilled Sweetcorn and Herby Rice

Sweet with a powerful kick, this easy jerk chicken with rice is a perfect summer dish. Just add more cold beer.

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Why it works: Ginger and sweetcorn work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 41 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-heptanol, which smells bitter, floral. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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. Ginger + sweetcorntop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Thyme + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,585 recipes

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

  5. Thyme + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,641 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, sauce, thyme, olive, onion, chicken, pepper):

  1. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  2. Basilbetter flavor fit
  3. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, sauce, thyme, olive, onion, chicken, pepper. 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).