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Shredded Sesame Chicken Pancakes with Spiced Plum Sauce

Cook your roast chicken with honey and five-spice glaze then serve with a Chinese-style fruit sauce and pancakes

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Shredded Sesame Chicken Pancakes with Spiced Plum Sauce

Why it works: Sunflower and sesame match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 172 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Shredded Sesame Chicken Pancakes with Spiced Plum Sauce

Serves 4 - 6
Prep25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

722Calories
38 gProtein
18 gFat
97 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Pancakenot in our table0

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

By bbcgoodfood. 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. Sunflower + sesametop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together172 recipes

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

  2. Sesame + cucumbertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together364 recipes

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

  3. Sunflower + cucumbertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Chicken + sesametop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together939 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Plum + cucumbertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together222 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

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

Swap the plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, sunflower, honey, sesame, sugar, rice wine, cucumber):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sunflower, honey, sesame, sugar, rice wine, cucumber. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.