Name: Cooking for Others: Green Chile ChickenGreen Chile Chicken
Yield: One Big Tableserves 4
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon vegetable oil; 1 medium onion, diced; 1 red pepper, trimmed and chopped; 1 carrot, coarsely chopped; 1 jalepeno chile, seeded, trimmed, and minced; One 4-ounce can chopped green chiles, drained; 4 garlic cloves, minced; 1/2 teaspoon cumin; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour; 2 1/4 cups chicken broth; 1 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1-inch chunks; 1 cup corn kernels (frozen is fine); 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice; 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro

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 ↓

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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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Carrot + cumintop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together777 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).
Garlic + cumintop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,082 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Clove + cumintop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,306 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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 (onion, pepper, carrot, garlic, cumin, flour, chicken):

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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Corn	1/2 cup kernels (82g)	77
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Cumin	1 tsp ground (2.1g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Cilantro	1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Cooking for Others: Green Chile ChickenGreen Chile Chicken