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Easy Buffalo Wings Recipe

In this oven-baked version of the classic fried finger food, a short marinade combined with broiling crisps up the skin and leaves the meat juicy. A last-minute...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and buttermilk match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 129 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Easy Buffalo Wings Recipe

6 to 8 servings as an hors d'oeuvre

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

534Calories
46 gProtein
32 gFat
16 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. 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. Sauce + buttermilktop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together129 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

  3. Garlic + celerytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,321 recipes

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

  4. Butter + blue cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together232 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  5. Buttermilk + blue cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the celery

The recipe marks celery as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, buttermilk, garlic, chicken, butter, blue cheese):

  1. Thymefits about as well
  2. Parsleyfits about as well
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, buttermilk, garlic, chicken, butter, blue cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.