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Crispy Baked Chicken Tenders with Sriracha Honey Mustard

Juicy chicken tenders coated in whole-grain Rice Krispies and served with a sweet and spicy dipping sauce. These are a healthy and comforting treat! (And they are gluten-free!)

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Sriracha and honey work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 90 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 3
Prep25 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Sriracha + honeytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Chicken + ricetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,569 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Honey + yogurttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together659 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  4. Chicken + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  5. Rice + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together546 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, buttermilk, rice, sriracha, honey, mustard, yogurt):

  1. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  2. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  3. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, buttermilk, rice, sriracha, honey, mustard, yogurt. 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).