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Baked Honey Sriracha Chicken

Sweet and spicy Baked Honey Sriracha Chicken. Takes less than 30 minutes to make and is so much better than take-out!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Honey and sriracha work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 90 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep15 min
Cook15 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 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Honey + srirachatop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Chicken + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  3. Garlic + srirachatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together270 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Egg + srirachatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together101 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Chicken + srirachatop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together136 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, flour, egg, sauce, garlic, honey, sriracha):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Jalapenobetter flavor fit
  3. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, flour, egg, sauce, garlic, honey, sriracha. 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).