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Smoking Chipotle Honey Sauce

A sauce made with chipotle pepper, honey, mayonnaise, ketchup, and mustard.

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Why it works: Sauce and ketchup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,099 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Smoking Chipotle Honey Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix all sauce ingredients in a bowl and set aside.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

181Calories
8 gProtein
6 gFat
26 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
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.

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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. Sauce + ketchuptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

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

  3. Sauce + mustardtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,120 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Honey + mustardtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together919 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Pepper + honeytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,990 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Chipotle pepper in adobo sauce
Provides smoky heat and a little tang that flavours the sauce.
Honey
Adds sweetness that balances the heat and tang of the chipotle.
Mayonnaise
Adds fat and creaminess, giving the sauce a smooth, rich body.
Ketchup
Adds sweetness and acidity, rounding out the sauce's flavour.
Yellow mustard
Adds sharp acidity that brightens the sauce and cuts through the richness.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, sauce, honey, ketchup):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Mustardthe original
  3. Tomatofits about as well
  4. Horseradishfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, sauce, honey, ketchup. 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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