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Aspargus and Chicken Bites

A tasty and quick way to serve chicken as an appetizer or main dish. Plus, it looks very interesting!

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Why it works: Chicken and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 10,796 recipes mention both. Both carry acetic acid hexyl ester, which smells sweet, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

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By bbcgoodfood. 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 + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  2. Olive + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,398 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  3. Chicken + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together19,957 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

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