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Crunchy Coconut Chicken Tenders

Coconut adds just the right amount of sweetness to your crunchy panko chicken tenders. To keep them crunchy, we start them on the stove top and finish in the oven.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Crunchy Coconut Chicken Tenders

Why it works: Olive and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,672 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Crunchy Coconut Chicken Tenders

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1106Calories
53 gProtein
51 gFat
107 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
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. Olive + coconuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,672 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Chicken + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,888 recipes

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

  3. Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Chicken + coconuttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together808 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

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

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, pepper, egg, bread, chicken, olive):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Cherryfits about as well
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, pepper, egg, bread, chicken, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.