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Chicken Tikka Wraps

These easy wraps take just 10 minutes to prepare and are a great healthy snack on the run

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and naan work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and 8 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4 as a snack
Prep10 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Halve and thinly slice the cucumber, shred the lettuce, and slice the spring onions. Tear the mint leaves into smaller pieces and place all of them in separate bowls.

  2. Warm the naan bread one at a time in a dry skillet over medium heat for about 1 minute per side, until soft and lightly browned in spots. Keep them covered in a clean towel.

  3. Heat the cooked chicken tikka pieces in a small pan over medium heat for about 3 minutes, stirring, until steaming hot throughout and reaching 165°F (74°C).

  4. Spread a warm naan flat on a board. Divide the chicken tikka pieces among the four naan, placing them down the center of each.

  5. Top each naan with cucumber, lettuce, spring onions and mint. Add a spoonful of natural yogurt, then roll up tightly and serve right away.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Lettuce + naantop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  2. Cucumber + lettucetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,409 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Cucumber + minttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together884 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Onion + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Mint + yogurttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cucumber, lettuce, onion, naan, bread, chicken, yogurt):

  1. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  2. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  3. Cuminabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cucumber, lettuce, onion, naan, bread, chicken, yogurt. 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).