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Authentic Chicken Adobo

"Adobo is a simple and hearty Filipino dish. In this version, chicken is marinated in vinegar and soy sauce, then slowly cooked with garlic and spices. Serve over steamed white rice."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Authentic Chicken Adobo

Why it works: Garlic and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 10,850 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

Authentic Chicken Adobo

8 servings
Prep20 min
Cook1 hr 30 min

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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. Garlic + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,850 recipes

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

  2. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,090 recipes

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

  3. Coconut + chickentop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together808 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Vinegar + garlictop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,115 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Coconut + garlictop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,362 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the coconut

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

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  3. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  4. Coconutthe original

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