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Stir Fried Chicken with Black Bean Sauce

A popular and easy stir-fry, chicken and black bean sauce is a great midweek supper.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Stir Fried Chicken with Black Bean Sauce

Why it works: Onion and garlic 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 ↓

Stir Fried Chicken with Black Bean Sauce

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

244Calories
33 gProtein
4 gFat
13 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 9 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Coriandernot 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.

By bbcfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + coriandertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,474 recipes

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

  3. Sunflower + coriandertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together369 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Pepper + coriandertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,949 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Garlic + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,850 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

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

Swap the coriander

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, onion, pepper, garlic, chicken, sauce, sherry):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Cuminfits about as well
  3. Parsleyfits about as well
  4. Corianderthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, onion, pepper, garlic, chicken, sauce, sherry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.