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Piri-Piri Chicken with Peppers

Piri-Piri Chicken roasted with cherry tomatos, sweet red peppers, onions and olives.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and cherry tomato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 24 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Piri-Piri Chicken with Peppers

Serves 2

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

374Calories
34 gProtein
18 gFat
19 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Cherry Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Olive1 large (4g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Olive + cherry tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Olive + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,888 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 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

Swap the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, olive, pepper, onion):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

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