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Blushing Pomegranate Chicken

"Pomegranate marinated chicken simmers alongside ginger accented sweet potatoes. This recipe requires very little prep work and minimal attention so you can easily cook it while going about your holiday business! Serve over hot rice."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Blushing Pomegranate Chicken

Why it works: Chicken and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 10,796 recipes mention both. Both carry acetic acid hexyl ester, which smells sweet, green. The science ↓

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8 servings
Prep10 min
Cook45 min

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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 + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  2. Sweet potato + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together306 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Sweet potato + pomegranatetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Vinegar + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  5. Pomegranate + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together301 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pomegranate, sherry, vinegar, olive, sugar, ginger):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Carrotabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Sweet potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pomegranate, sherry, vinegar, olive, sugar, ginger. 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).