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Chicken Caesar Skewers with Kale Pesto

Grilled chicken made new! Start with a quick and healthy olive oil-based Caesar dressing. Then add a yummy pesto dipping sauce. Ready in 30 minutes.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and kale work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 215 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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 + kaletop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together215 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  2. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Garlic + kaletop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together490 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Pepper + clovetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13,144 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Chicken + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

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 (chicken, olive, white wine, vinegar, anchovy, garlic, pepper):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  3. Basilbetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, olive, white wine, vinegar, anchovy, garlic, pepper. 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).