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Teriyaki Chicken Recipe

Make a bigger batch of the sauce so next time you want to make this dish, the sauce is ready to go - it keeps for ages in the fridge.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Sesame and coriander match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 707 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

Teriyaki Chicken Recipe

2 people
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1310Calories
57 gProtein
38 gFat
167 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Sake1 oz (30ml)39
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Coriandernot in our table0

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

By lovefood. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sesame + coriandertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together707 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  2. Sesame + saketop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together79 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. Chicken + sesametop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together939 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Chicken + saketop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Sesame + rice winetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together244 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

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

Swap the coriander

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, sesame, sauce, sake, rice wine, sugar):

  1. Gingerfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Corianderthe original
  4. Cinnamonfits less well

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