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Jamaican Curry Chicken with Bullga

A Jamaican curry chicken dish simmered with onions, green onions, red chile peppers, curry powder, and served with bulla cakes.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lime and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,491 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Jamaican Curry Chicken with Bullga

Total1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut chicken into equally-sized pieces.

  2. Rinse the chicken in lime juice.

Marinate

  1. Combine the chicken with the green onions, onions, chile peppers, curry powder, salt, and pepper.

  2. Let marinate for 5–10 minutes.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat olive oil in a pot.

  2. Add the chicken mixture and cook for 30–60 minutes.

  3. Serve with bulla cakes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

363Calories
33 gProtein
18 gFat
18 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Meatnot in our table0
Cakenot 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.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

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

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

  2. Lime + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,888 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken meat
Provides the main protein, which becomes tender and juicy as it cooks slowly in the pot.
Curry powder
Supplies the aromatic spice blend that flavours the chicken throughout.
Onions
Break down during cooking to add sweetness and body to the sauce.
Olive oil
Carries the spices' flavour and helps the chicken brown in the pot.

The step that matters

Cooking the chicken in the pot. Cooking over a long 30–60 minute period lets the connective tissue soften and the spices bloom into the fat. Heat that is too high can scorch the curry powder and onions before the chicken is tender.

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, meat, onion, pepper, olive):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limethe original
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Lemonfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, meat, onion, pepper, olive. 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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