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Chicken Breast with Marmite Korma Sauce Recipe

Chicken breast served with a surprising Marmite korma sauce and masala peanuts. Unconventionally delectable.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 24 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and turmeric match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,776 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Chicken Breast with Marmite Korma Sauce Recipe

4 people
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

807Calories
44 gProtein
59 gFat
32 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 17 ingredients. The other 6 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Chicken100g cooked165
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Cashew Nutnot in our table0
Coriandernot in our table0
Seednot in our table0
Poppy Seednot in our table0
Fenugreeknot in our table0
Tamarindnot 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 lovefood. 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 + turmerictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,776 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Turmeric + cashew nuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together104 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Garlic + cashew nuttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together267 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Peanut + cashew nuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, ginger, turmeric, garlic, peanut, onion, cashew nut):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, ginger, turmeric, garlic, peanut, onion, cashew nut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.