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Best Ever BBQ Marinade!

This marinade offers a great blend of flavors including honey, BBQ sauce, chili and lime juice. I got this recipe from some friends who in turn had gotten it from some other friends so I think that it’s one of those recipes that travels quickly simply because it´s so delicious. And it is seriously the best marinade I have ever had!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Best Ever BBQ Marinade!

Why it works: Lime and honey work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 679 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Best Ever BBQ Marinade!

Serves 4
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

83Calories
1 gProtein
0 gFat
22 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 5 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Seednot in our table0
Saucenot 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. Lime + honeytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together679 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Lime + saucetop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sauce + honeytop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together638 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, honey):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Grapefits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, honey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.