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Kumquat Garlic Chicken Recipe

Here's a cozy holiday recipe for gluten free Kumquat Garlic Chicken.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and agave work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 82 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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1 whole chicken

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By chow. 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. Garlic + agavetop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together82 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Agave + arrowroottop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together28 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Chicken + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  5. Chicken + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, olive, garlic, agave, arrowroot, kumquat):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  3. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, olive, garlic, agave, arrowroot, kumquat. 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).