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Chicken Pulao with Pumpkin Recipe

The Uighurs share with their close cousins the Uzbeks a delicious pulao tradition. Pulao or pilaf is the name for a rice dish that is cooked together with flavorings...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and pumpkin work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 700 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By chow. 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. Chicken + pumpkintop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together700 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Rice + chickentop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,569 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Rice + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,990 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Chicken + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

The recipe marks lemon as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, chicken, radish, peanut oil, onion, tomato, pumpkin):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Limebetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, chicken, radish, peanut oil, onion, tomato, pumpkin. 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).