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5 Minute Teriyaki Chicken! Recipe

I've taken this from my favourite website SumoKitchen.com which is run by a good friend of mine. I love the recipe because it's SO easy, and super fast-less than...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and sake share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 46 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

The recipe

2 servings

Ingredients

Contains: soy (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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. Chicken + saketop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Chicken + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  3. Sauce + sugartop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,144 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Chicken + saucetop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together4,512 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sake + potatotop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8 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 potato

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

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Welsh onionabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sauce, sugar, sake. 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).