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Honey Mustard Chicken with Avocado and Tomato Salsa and Hummus Sauce

Strips of marinated chicken in warm pittas makes for a simple and healthy lunchtime treat or summer barbecue.

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Why it works: Bread and chickpea work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 21 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat, sesame (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. Bread + chickpeatop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together21 recipes

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

  2. Avocado + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Lemon + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,289 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,491 recipes

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

  5. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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, mustard, honey, pepper, bread, avocado, lime):

  1. Mangoabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, mustard, honey, pepper, bread, avocado, lime. 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).