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Real Chicken Nuggets with Smoky BBQ Sauce

Oven-baked not fried - but still crispy thanks to a secret ingredient, Serve with homemade relish for a family meal

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Real Chicken Nuggets with Smoky BBQ Sauce

Why it works: Ketchup and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,099 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Real Chicken Nuggets with Smoky BBQ Sauce

Serves 2
Prep20 min
Cook10 min

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Ketchup + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Sugar + ketchuptop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Chicken + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,031 recipes

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

  4. Wine + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,759 recipes

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

  5. Wine + vinegartop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,493 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, sugar, wine, vinegar, ketchup, sauce):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Mustardabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Tomatothe original
  4. Shallotabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sugar, wine, vinegar, ketchup, sauce. 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).