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Grilled Curry & Kefir Marinated Chicken with Fresh Corn Salsa

By cookincanuck · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Kefir and chicken work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and 5 recipes mention both. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

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By cookincanuck. 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. Kefir + chickentop 27% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Garlic + chickentop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

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

  4. Garlic + jalapenotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Chicken + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the jalapeno

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (kefir, garlic, ginger, chicken, corn, pepper, olive):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Basilbetter flavor fit
  3. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  4. Jalapenothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against kefir, garlic, ginger, chicken, corn, pepper, olive. 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).