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Best Bourbon Chicken

"Bourbon Chicken is traditionally a Southern dish, and after moving to Pennsylvania from Oklahoma, I really missed this. I searched for a recipe I liked, but I couldn't find one, so this is my own delicious version, spiced up with ginger, fruit juice, red pepper, and a little Southern Comfort! Serve over rice. "

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Best Bourbon Chicken

Why it works: Sauce and ketchup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,099 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Best Bourbon Chicken

8 servings
Prep15 min
Cook45 min

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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 + ketchuptop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Apple + grapetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,659 recipes

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

  3. Grape + cherrytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together696 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Olive + cherrytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,889 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  5. Apple + cherrytop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together295 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, chicken, sugar, apple, grape, sauce, ketchup):

  1. Pearabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Plumabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Pineappleabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Cherrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, chicken, sugar, apple, grape, sauce, ketchup. 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).