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Grilled Thai Chicken Satay and Peanut Sauce Over Ginger Coconut Rice

Grilled chicken satay with a little Thai flair served over flavorful ginger coconut rice … Oh, and there’s peanut sauce too!

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Why it works: Chicken and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,569 recipes mention both. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep25 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

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

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By tastykitchen. 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. Chicken + ricetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,569 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  2. Clove + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Lime + gingertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,621 recipes

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

  4. Coconut + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,048 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  5. Coconut + peanuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together434 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, coconut, milk, lime, honey, fish sauce, sambal):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  3. Turmericbetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, coconut, milk, lime, honey, fish sauce, sambal. 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).