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Chicken Sauté with Thyme, Lemon and Chili

In this simple dish, thin chicken cutlets are quickly sautéed, and then a quick pan sauce is created by cooking together fresh thyme, tart lemon juice and hot chilies. Serve with mashed potatoes and sautéed savoy cabbage.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Chicken Sauté with Thyme, Lemon and Chili

Why it works: Thyme and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,973 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Chicken Sauté with Thyme, Lemon and Chili

Serves 2.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

346Calories
32 gProtein
18 gFat
10 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
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. Thyme + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

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

  2. Shallot + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,476 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Pepper + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

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

  5. Olive + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,948 recipes

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

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

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, chicken, pepper, thyme, white wine, lemon):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Shallotthe original
  4. Spinachfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, chicken, pepper, thyme, white wine, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.