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Grilled Jerk Chicken Kabob with Pineapple

An easy, paleo, gluten-free, diary-free, dinner to throw on the grill any night of the week and avoid heating up your kitchen.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Grilled Jerk Chicken Kabob with Pineapple

Why it works: Ginger and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,038 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Grilled Jerk Chicken Kabob with Pineapple

Serves 4
Prep5 min
Cook12 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

460Calories
33 gProtein
18 gFat
45 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 14 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Allspice1 tsp ground (1.9g)5
Jalapeno1 pepper (14g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Seednot in our table0
Waternot 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 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. Ginger + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Lime + jalapenotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,035 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Lime + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together305 recipes

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

  4. Lime + gingertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,621 recipes

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

  5. Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Swap the jalapeno

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (canola oil, lime, maple syrup, ginger, clove, garlic, thyme):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Corianderfits better
  3. Allspicefits better
  4. Jalapenothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against canola oil, lime, maple syrup, ginger, clove, garlic, thyme. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.