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Chicken Satay Stir-fry

simple chinese chicken satay

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Why it works: Garlic and nuts work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and 19 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

  • garnish
  • marinade

Directions

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By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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 + nutstop 19% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Capsicum + coriandertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,661 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Carrot + capsicumtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,751 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Capsicum + peanuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together707 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, onion, garlic, capsicum, peanut, butter, coriander):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Carrotthe original
  4. Broccoliabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, onion, garlic, capsicum, peanut, butter, coriander. 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).