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Spicy Chicken and Chayote Jamaican Stew Recipe

Hot as heck in the best possible way, this easy-to-prepare stew is rounded out with lots of flavor from browned chicken and the underappreciated chayote gourd...

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Why it works: Chicken and chayote work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and 14 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

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6 servings

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

  1. Chicken + chayotetop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Allspice + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,077 recipes

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

  4. Onion + potatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,019 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Pepper + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,585 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the allspice

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, chicken, onion, garlic, thyme, potato, sweet potato):

  1. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  3. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  4. Allspicethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, chicken, onion, garlic, thyme, potato, sweet potato. 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).