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Baked Apricot Chicken Recipe

Fresh summer apricots, butter, shallots, orange juice, and a splash of Lillet cook into a sweet and savory sauce in this recipe for baked chicken.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Baked Apricot Chicken Recipe

Why it works: Apricot and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 703 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Baked Apricot Chicken Recipe

4 to 6 servings
Cook2 hr 10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

445Calories
34 gProtein
16 gFat
43 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Apricot1 medium (35g)17
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 chow. 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. Apricot + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together703 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Pepper + orangetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,402 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Shallot + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,898 recipes

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

  4. Apricot + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,458 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Shallot + orangetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together220 recipes

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

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

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apricot, butter, pepper, orange, sugar, chicken):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apricot, butter, pepper, orange, sugar, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.