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Smoked BBQ Chicken Sandwiches with a Apple Colslaw Recipe

I love to use my smokers when I have time and recently made 3 smoked chickens. I used some applewood to give it a little flavor and a great water bath with lots...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and apple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and 854 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-undecalactone, which smells peach, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

This will serve 1 large baguette or Italian loaf.

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (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 + appletop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together854 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  2. Apple + cidertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,042 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Chicken + turkeytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together690 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  4. Chicken + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Onion + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,243 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, turkey, onion, sauce, apple, cider, butter):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, turkey, onion, sauce, apple, cider, butter. 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).