Name: Panko-Crusted Chicken with Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 8 whole Chicken Drumsticks, Skinned; ½ cups Whole Buttermilk; 2 Tablespoons Grated Onion; 1 Tablespoon Grated Garlic; ¾ cups Panko (Japanese Breadcrumbs); ¼ cups Grated Parmesan Cheese; 2 Tablespoons Minced Fresh Chives; ⅛ teaspoons Salt; ¼ teaspoons Black Pepper; 2 Tablespoons Canola Mayonnaise; 2 Tablespoons Plain Fat-free Greek Yogurt; 1-½ teaspoon Honey; 1-½ teaspoon Yellow Mustard; ½ teaspoons Dijon Mustard

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

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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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Garlic + chivetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,149 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Onion + chivetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,907 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Chicken + garlictop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,850 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).
Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, buttermilk, garlic, parmesan cheese, chive, pepper, yogurt):

Potatofits about as well
Spinachfits about as well
Welsh onionfits about as well
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, buttermilk, garlic, parmesan cheese, chive, pepper, yogurt. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Canola	1 tbsp (14g)	124
Parmesan Cheese	1 oz (28g)	110
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Honey	1 tbsp (21g)	64
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Mustard	1 tsp (5g) yellow	3
Chives	1 tbsp (3g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Panko-Crusted Chicken with Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce