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Three-Nut Baked Chicken Tenders with Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce

These are simple, crispy, and crunchy.—just delicious to munch on. Serve with creamy coleslaw or cooked brown rice and a vegetable, if you like.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Three-Nut Baked Chicken Tenders with Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce

Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Three-Nut Baked Chicken Tenders with Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

527Calories
39 gProtein
40 gFat
4 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Pecan1 half (4g)20
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Walnut + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together993 recipes

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

  3. Walnut + parsleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together865 recipes

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

  4. Almond + mustardtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together246 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Parsley + mustardtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,588 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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 (egg, walnut, pepper, parsley, chicken, canola oil, mustard):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, walnut, pepper, parsley, chicken, canola oil, mustard. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.