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Butterflied Grilled Duck with Spicy Watermelon Glaze

The duck is the new chicken! Butterflying the duck makes it easier to cook and shortens the cooking time, and the result is crispy skin with succulent meat. The spicy-sweet watermelon glaze ups the flavor ante. This will be your new go-to grilling recipe.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Butterflied Grilled Duck with Spicy Watermelon Glaze

Why it works: Lime and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,491 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Butterflied Grilled Duck with Spicy Watermelon Glaze

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

622Calories
21 gProtein
43 gFat
43 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Duck100g cooked with skin337
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Watermelon1 cup diced (152g)46
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
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. Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

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

  2. Lime + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

  4. Apple + olivetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,565 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  5. Apple + peppertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,026 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lime, sauce, olive, pepper):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lime, sauce, olive, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.