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Banana Curried Chicken

A savory dish of cooked chicken, bananas, apples, raisins, and curry simmered in stock and finished with cream.

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Why it works: Flour and raisin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,075 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Banana Curried Chicken

Time20 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Fry onions in oil until brown.

  2. Add flour and mix well.

  3. Add chicken stock gradually while stirring.

Simmer and serve

  1. Add remainder of ingredients except cream.

  2. Cover saucepan.

  3. Simmer for 20 minutes.

  4. Remove bay leaf.

  5. Mix in cream just before serving on a bed of rice.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1159Calories
48 gProtein
25 gFat
190 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
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.

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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. Flour + raisintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Banana + appletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together435 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Onion + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

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

  4. Raisin + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Raisin + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Onions
Browned onions build the savory base of the curry sauce.
Flour
Thickens the stock into a smooth, body-rich sauce.
Chicken stock
Forms the liquid that the curry simmers in.
Bananas
Break down during simmering to add sweetness and body to the sauce.
Heavy cream
Adds richness and a smooth, mellow finish when stirred in at the end.

The step that matters

Browning the onions. Onions fried until deep brown develop sweet, roasted flavors through the Maillard reaction and caramelization. Pale onions leave the sauce tasting flat and raw.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, chicken, raisin, banana, apple, lemon, sugar):

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, chicken, raisin, banana, apple, lemon, sugar. 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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