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Crockpot Honey Sesame Chicken

A simple meal that is full of flavor. Great served over rice or noodles.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Honey and sesame work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 527 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook6 hr

Ingredients

Contains: wheat, soy, sesame (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. Honey + sesametop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together527 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Chicken + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Pepper + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17,913 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Chicken + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together939 recipes

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

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, pepper, honey, sauce, tomato, sugar, sesame):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  3. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, honey, sauce, tomato, sugar, sesame. 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).