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BBQ Chicken Wings with Sweetcorn Rice and Red Cabbage Slaw

If the weather permits, then cook the chicken on a barbecue, for that smoky, woody, charcoal flavour. If not, you can bake it in the oven, as I have here.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 22 ingredients
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Why it works: Coriander and sweetcorn work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 87 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: milk, soy (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Coriander + sweetcorntop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  2. Ketchup + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Tomato + coriandertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,966 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Chicken + ricetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,569 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  5. Tomato + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the thyme

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, tomato, ketchup, vinegar, sauce, honey, garlic):

  1. Gingerabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Basilabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Thymethe original
  4. Celeryabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, tomato, ketchup, vinegar, sauce, honey, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).