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Marinated Mediterranean Chicken Pita and Slaw

An easy recipe from Marie's for grilled chicken breast skewers marinated in Marie's Original Coleslaw Dressing, served with coleslaw, pita bread, and tomatoes.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 21 ingredients
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Why it works: Cumin and pita bread work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 48 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Cook1 hr 40 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By chow. 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. Cumin + pita breadtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Cumin + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,103 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  4. Pepper + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Cumin + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,083 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cinnamon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cumin, garlic, pepper, lemon, chicken, onion, cabbage):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  4. Cinnamonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cumin, garlic, pepper, lemon, chicken, onion, cabbage. 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).