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Mini Sweet & Sour Chicken Bites

Super delicious appetizer just in time for the holidays! Even works well for a football game gathering of friends and family. So flavorful, you don’t even need any dip or sauce.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Mini Sweet & Sour Chicken Bites

Why it works: Cinnamon and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,380 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Mini Sweet & Sour Chicken Bites

Serves 10
Prep8 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

875Calories
47 gProtein
5 gFat
162 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chicken100g cooked165
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2

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. Cinnamon + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Pineapple + appletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together530 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Cinnamon + appletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  4. Ginger + appletop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,424 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Pineapple + gingertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together559 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, sugar, cinnamon, bread, sauce, ginger, apple):

  1. Pearfits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sugar, cinnamon, bread, sauce, ginger, apple. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.