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Momofuku Chicken Wings Recipe

This Momofuku chicken wings recipe from David Chang covers crispy chicken wings in a sweet-spicy sauce.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Momofuku Chicken Wings Recipe

Why it works: Chicken and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,417 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Momofuku Chicken Wings Recipe

10 to 12 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1008Calories
79 gProtein
59 gFat
26 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Duck100g cooked with skin337
Pork100g cooked242
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Sake1 oz (30ml)39
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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 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. Chicken + porktop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Chicken + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,850 recipes

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

  3. Garlic + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Chicken + saketop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Pork + garlictop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,169 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 clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, sugar, sake, sauce, pork, garlic):

  1. Gingerfits better
  2. Corianderfits better
  3. Cuminfits about as well
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sugar, sake, sauce, pork, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.