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Chicken Satay with Chunky Peanut Sauce Recipe

My mother recalls the old man she used to buy chicken satay from in Rangoon’s Chinatown. She tells me it was something that was eaten by the roadside. There was...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and peanut oil work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 265 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

The recipe

serves: 4-6

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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 + peanut oiltop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together265 recipes

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

  2. Cumin + turmerictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,698 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Ginger + turmerictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,775 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Lemon grass + turmerictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together144 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Lemon grass + gingertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together364 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, meat, lemon grass, ginger, cumin, turmeric, rice wine):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Cardamombetter flavor fit
  3. Garlicthe original
  4. Cinnamonabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, meat, lemon grass, ginger, cumin, turmeric, rice wine. 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).