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Thai Curry-grilled Chicken with Green Peppercorn Pasta, Baby Vegetables and Avocado Lemon Sauce

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Why it works: Pasta and avocado share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 60 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Thai Curry-grilled Chicken with Green Peppercorn Pasta, Baby Vegetables and Avocado Lemon Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Blend oil and paste.

  2. Cover chicken for 24 hours.

  3. Blend ingredients in Cuisinart and let stand for 1 hour.

  4. Roll flat and dust with flour.

  5. Roll through pasta machine and blanch in boiling water.

  6. Toss with olive oil and season.

  7. Sauté shallots and garlic.

  8. Then add wine and reduce.

  9. Add stock and reduce by half.

  10. Blend mixture with spinach, butter, avocado, and strain.

  11. Season with salt and pepper.

  12. Cook vegetables as desired for four.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1667Calories
63 gProtein
86 gFat
158 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 15 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Chicken100g cooked165
Grapeseed Oil1 tbsp (14g)120
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saucenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Explore the science

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. Pasta + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together60 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Pasta + flourtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together659 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Pasta + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together565 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Avocado + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together800 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Lemon + white winetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pasta, egg, flour, sauce, avocado, white wine):

  1. Limefits about as well
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Coconutfits less well
  4. Cherryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pasta, egg, flour, sauce, avocado, white wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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