Name: Zingy Chicken Stir-fry
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 2 blocks egg noodles; 2 tsp sunflower oil; 2 cooked chicken breasts , shredded; 3 carrots , finely sliced into rings; 2 tbsp clear honey; 1 tbsp soy sauce; juice 2 limes; 3 tbsp toasted sesame seeds; handful coriander leaves

Why it works: Sunflower and sesame match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 172 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Zingy Chicken Stir-fry

Serves 2

Prep10 min

Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

352Calories

39 gProtein

9 gFat

29 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 9 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Honey	1 tbsp (21g)	64
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Sunflower Oil	not in our table	0
Toasted Sesame Seed	not in our table	0
Coriander	not in our table	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.

Sunflower + sesametop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together172 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Sunflower + limetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together200 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Sunflower + carrottop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together279 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Carrot + limetop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together646 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Lime + sesametop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together431 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sunflower, chicken, honey, sauce, lime, sesame):

Welsh onionfits better
Capsicumfits better
Spinachfits better
Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sunflower, chicken, honey, sauce, lime, sesame. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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