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Take the Night Off Slow Cooker Pineapple Chicken

"Served with brown rice and steamed broccoli, it makes a nice Asian-style meal. It's a nice, mild dish."

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Take the Night Off Slow Cooker Pineapple Chicken

Why it works: Pineapple and honey work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 262 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Take the Night Off Slow Cooker Pineapple Chicken

8 servings
Prep10 min
Cook7 hr

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

371Calories
33 gProtein
4 gFat
53 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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. Pineapple + honeytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together262 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Pineapple + gingertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together559 recipes

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

  3. Honey + gingertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Chicken + gingertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Sauce + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, honey, sauce, sugar, ginger):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Grapefits about as well
  4. Pineapplethe original

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