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Bacon Water Chestnut Rolls

"Quick and easy! Bacon-chestnut rolls covered in a mayonnaise and hot pepper sauce."

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Why it works: Water chestnut and sauce work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 124 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

24 rolls
Prep10 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Also mentioned in the method: chestnut

Directions

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

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil and set a wire rack on top.

  2. In a small bowl, stir together the mayonnaise, light brown sugar and tomato-based chili sauce until smooth. Set aside half for brushing and keep the rest for serving.

  3. Wrap each bacon half around a water chestnut half and secure it with a toothpick.

  4. Arrange the wrapped chestnuts seam side down on the rack. Bake for 20 minutes.

  5. Brush the tops with some of the sauce mixture. Bake 20 to 25 minutes more, brushing once more, until the bacon is crisp and reaches 145°F (63°C) in the thickest part.

  6. Let the rolls rest for 3 minutes, then remove the toothpicks and serve warm with the remaining sauce for dipping.

By allrecipes. 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. Water chestnut + saucetop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together124 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Tomato + saucetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together5,468 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Water chestnut + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Sugar + saucetop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,144 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Water chestnut + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together132 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the tomato

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

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Mustardbetter flavor fit
  3. Welsh onionbetter flavor fit
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against water chestnut, sugar, sauce. 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).