Name: Shandy Braised Chicken with Mushrooms and Green Olives
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 8 whole Bone-In, Skin-On Chicken Thighs; 1 Tablespoon Kosher Salt And Freshly Ground Black Pepper, To Taste; 2 whole Canola Oil; 4 cloves Large Onions, Chopped; 16 ounces, weight Large Garlic Cloves, Sliced; ½ cups Medium To Large Sized Whole Button Mushrooms, Quartered; 2 teaspoons Pitted Large Green Olives (I Used Big Beautiful Ones With Pits From Our Grocer's Deli); 1 teaspoon Fresh Chopped Thyme Leaves; 1 cup Kosher Salt; ⅓ cups Freshly Cracked Black Pepper; 1 Tablespoon Lemon Shandy; 1 Tablespoon Low Sodium Chicken Broth

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

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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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,172 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).
Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Garlic + mushroomtop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,700 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pepper, canola oil, onion, garlic, mushroom, olive):

Thymefits better
Cuminfits better
Rosemaryfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, canola oil, onion, garlic, mushroom, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Olive	1 large (4g)	4
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Shandy Braised Chicken with Mushrooms and Green Olives