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Wagner Estate Caribbean Lime Chicken

A chicken dish marinated in lime juice, garlic, and spices, cooked with onions and tomatoes.

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Why it works: Garlic and onion 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 ↓

Wagner Estate Caribbean Lime Chicken

Timeabout 8 minutes for onions

Ingredients

Directions

Marinate

  1. Mix 3 tablespoons lime juice, minced garlic, salt, thyme, red pepper flakes, and black pepper in a dish.

  2. Add chicken and mix well.

Brown and cook

  1. Heat oil until hot in a large skillet.

  2. Place chicken in the skillet in a single layer and cook over medium heat until browned, about 5 minutes.

  3. Turn chicken over and brown the other side, about 5 minutes.

  4. Add onion to the pan and cook, stirring often, about 8 minutes or until the chicken and onions are cooked through.

  5. Add tomatoes and curry powder to the pan.

  6. Cook for 2 minutes.

  7. Stir in the remaining lime juice.

Serve

  1. Serve with rice.

  2. Garnish with citrus wedges.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

466Calories
36 gProtein
19 gFat
43 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Thyme + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

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

  3. Lime + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,289 recipes

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

  4. Lime + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together305 recipes

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

  5. Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Provides the main protein; browning the skin adds savory flavor and color.
Lime juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor and helps season the chicken.
Onions
Soften and sweeten as they cook, adding body to the pan juices.
Tomatoes
Add moisture and acidity that combine with the pan juices into a light sauce.
Garlic
Adds pungent aroma that mellows and deepens as it cooks.

The step that matters

Browning the chicken in a single layer. Crowding the skillet traps steam, so the skin steams rather than browns. Cooking in a single layer over medium heat lets the surface dry and develop color and flavor.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lime, garlic, thyme, pepper, chicken, tomato, lemon):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Okrafits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lime, garlic, thyme, pepper, chicken, tomato, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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