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Grilled Chicken Wings with Spicy Comeback Sauce

Chicken wings get a face lift! Grilled chicken wings with smokey BBQ flavor! Don’t forget the spicy comeback sauce!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,512 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep10 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, soy, fish (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. Chicken + saucetop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together4,512 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Sauce + ketchuptop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sambal + srirachatop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Pepper + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Chicken + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sambal

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, olive, pepper, sauce, lemon, ketchup, sriracha):

  1. Basilbetter flavor fit
  2. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  3. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  4. Sambalthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, olive, pepper, sauce, lemon, ketchup, sriracha. 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).