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Lime & Pepper Chicken Wraps

These tasty wraps are great for a relaxed meal, and they're really easy to make

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Lime & Pepper Chicken Wraps

Why it works: Lime and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 408 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Lime & Pepper Chicken Wraps

Serves 4
Prep5 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

427Calories
53 gProtein
8 gFat
36 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Tortilla1 medium flour (45g)140
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Sunflower Oilnot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lime + lettucetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together408 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Lime + sunflowertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together200 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Sunflower + lettucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Chicken + sunflowertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together315 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Chicken + lettucetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,421 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, lime, sunflower, yogurt):

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, lime, sunflower, yogurt. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.