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Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts II

"Mouth-watering bacon and water chestnut appetizer, covered with a savory sauce and baked."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and water chestnut 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

18 servings
Prep15 min
Cook50 min

Ingredients

Contains: tree nuts, soy, fish (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 350°F (175°C). Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil and set a wire rack on top.

  2. Cut each bacon slice in half crosswise. Wrap one half slice around each drained water chestnut, placing the seam side down.

  3. In a small saucepan, stir together the ketchup, brown sugar and Worcestershire sauce. Heat over medium, stirring, for about 5 minutes until the sugar dissolves into a smooth sauce.

  4. Arrange the wrapped water chestnuts on the rack. Spoon about one third of the sauce over them and bake for 20 minutes.

  5. Spoon more sauce over the chestnuts and bake for 20 minutes more, until the bacon is crisp and browned.

  6. Spoon the remaining sauce over the chestnuts and serve warm.

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. Sauce + water chestnuttop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together124 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Ketchup + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Ketchup + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sugar + water chestnuttop 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