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Sautéed Chicken Breasts with Bitter Orange Sauce

Here, orange marmalade is the base for a simple glaze-like sauce. It offers its sweet, yet pleasingly bitter, orange flavor and adds texture and body. Oranges are layered into the dish in a few other guises—sweet segments and juice, fiery liqueur and aromatic zest—with each element contributing to the heady citrus essence.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Sautéed Chicken Breasts with Bitter Orange Sauce

Why it works: Chicken and peanut work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 541 recipes. Both carry 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

Sautéed Chicken Breasts with Bitter Orange Sauce

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

688Calories
41 gProtein
43 gFat
38 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Grapeseed Oil1 tbsp (14g)120
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Bitter Orange1 medium (131g)62
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By williamssonoma. 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. Chicken + peanuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together541 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  2. Peanut + shallottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Orange + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,402 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + shallottop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,898 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Shallot + vinegartop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the bitter orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, chicken, pepper, peanut, butter, shallot, vinegar):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Bitter orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, chicken, pepper, peanut, butter, shallot, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.