Name: Sweet Tea BBQ Chicken
Ingredients: 12 bone-in/skin on chicken drumsticks; 2-18.5 ounce bottles Gold Peak Sweet Tea; 1 shallot, roughly chopped; 4 cloves garlic, roughly chopped; 1 tablespoon olive oil, plus extra as needed; 2 teaspoons kosher salt, plus extra as needed; 2 lemons, halved; Freshly cracked black pepper

Why it works: Garlic and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Sweet Tea BBQ Chicken

Ingredients

12 bone-in/skin on chicken drumsticks
2-18.5 ounce bottles Gold Peak Sweet Tea
1 shallot, roughly chopped
4 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
1 tablespoon olive oil, plus extra as needed
2 teaspoons kosher salt, plus extra as needed
2 lemons, halved
Freshly cracked black pepper

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

313Calories

32 gProtein

17 gFat

8 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Shallot	1 tbsp minced (10g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Tea	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By whatsgabycooking. 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.

Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Shallot + garlictop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,000 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Shallot + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,677 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, tea, shallot, garlic, olive, lemon, pepper):

Thymefits better
Parsleyfits better
Rosemaryfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, tea, shallot, garlic, olive, lemon, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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