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Crispy Chicken with Soy-Mayo Sauce

"This is one of my favorite dishes. The sake and mayo marinade makes chicken tender and juicy. It is great with steamed white rice and some simple salt and pepper sautéed asparagus with garlic. I sometimes use chicken tender strips to save time. You can also use shrimp instead of chicken. I understand that many of you don't have sake, but if you use white wine instead, the chicken will not the taste the same."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Crispy Chicken with Soy-Mayo Sauce

Why it works: Ketchup and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,099 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Crispy Chicken with Soy-Mayo Sauce

2 servings
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1200Calories
58 gProtein
24 gFat
171 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Sake1 oz (30ml)39
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
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 allrecipes. 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. Ketchup + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  3. Chicken + saketop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together46 recipes

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

  4. Sake + honeytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  5. Sake + rice winetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pepper, sake, rice wine, ketchup, honey, sauce):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Grapefits about as well
  4. Pineapplefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, sake, rice wine, ketchup, honey, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.