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Mole Chicken Wings Marinated in Tequila Lime

For those unfamiliar with mole sauce, it’s a slighty sweet and spicy Mexican sauce made with chiles and chocolate. The ingredients list for the mole sauce looks pretty long but most of the ingredients are fairly common and can be found at a regular grocery store or you may already have them in your cupboard. Don’t be scared by it because the recipe itself is fairly straightforward, despite the long list of ingredients. The only thing that may prove more difficult to track down are the chiles. If you have access to a Mexican or Latin American grocery store, that’s your best bet on finding the chiles. Otherwise, you can buy them online from someplace like Spice Rack.

By eatthelove · From Open Recipes · 24 ingredients
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Why it works: Lime and cumin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,216 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Mole Chicken Wings Marinated in Tequila Lime

24-32 medium-sized wings
Prep30 min
Cook90 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

798Calories
38 gProtein
42 gFat
73 gCarbs

Counts 17 of 18 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 17 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Cloves1 tsp ground (2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Coriandernot 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 eatthelove. 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. Lime + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,216 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,082 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Clove + cumintop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,306 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Swap the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lime, garlic, clove, chicken, olive, onion, cumin):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lime, garlic, clove, chicken, olive, onion, cumin. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.