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Sticky Cashew Chicken with Beansprout Salad

Fancy a takeaway? This dish takes just 20 mins and is full of flavour. Low GI too

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Sticky Cashew Chicken with Beansprout Salad

Why it works: Spinach and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 213 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Sticky Cashew Chicken with Beansprout Salad

Serves 4
Prep20 min

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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. Spinach + limetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together213 recipes

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

  2. Olive + spinachtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,971 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Spinach + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,336 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Olive + limetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Olive + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together29,779 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lime

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

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Limethe original
  4. Grapeabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, honey, chicken, olive, spinach, onion. 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).