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Chicken Chilli Beer Batter Strips

Who needs chicken nuggets when you can have strips of chicken in a crisp beer batter? Serve with salad as a light meal.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and beer match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 221 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Chicken + beertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together221 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Chicken + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Flour + eggtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together104,138 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + beertop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together740 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Lemon + eggtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,327 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

Flour and egg share little aroma chemistry, yet 104,138 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

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

  1. Grapebetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Pumpkinabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Coconutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, flour, beer, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).