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BBQ Chicken & Sweet Chips

A Twist on the traditional Chicken & Chips. A sticky BBQ'ed Chicken with Paprika Sweet Potato fries.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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BBQ Chicken & Sweet Chips

Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

BBQ Chicken & Sweet Chips

Serves 2

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

468Calories
38 gProtein
18 gFat
41 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Saucenot in our table0

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.

  1. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Mushroom + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,571 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Sweet potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together950 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,888 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

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

Swap the sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pepper, mushroom, sauce, olive):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Sweet potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, mushroom, sauce, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.