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BBQ Bacon Chicken Strips

A great appetizer for the holidays or anytime! Fun and quick to make.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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BBQ Bacon Chicken Strips

Why it works: Onion and cumin are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,498 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

BBQ Bacon Chicken Strips

Serves 4
Prep8 min
Cook22 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

343Calories
37 gProtein
8 gFat
31 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3

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. Onion + cumintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,498 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Mustard + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

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

  3. Mustard + cumintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together765 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Pepper + cumintop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,382 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

Swap the cumin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, ketchup, mustard, pepper, onion, maple syrup):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Celeryfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Cuminthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, ketchup, mustard, pepper, onion, maple syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.