Name: Chicken and Chayote
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons olive oil; 2 large skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, cut into cubes; 2 chayote squashes, diced; 2 large potatoes, diced; 1 small onion, diced; 2 cloves garlic, minced; salt and ground black pepper to taste

Chicken and Chayote

"My dad has made a side dish sort of like this for many years, but I've recently put my twist on this one. My husband adds ketchup or barbeque sauce on top of it, but I eat it just as it is. "

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients

Why it works: Chicken and chayote work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and 14 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

2 servings

Prep20 min

Cook15 min

Ingredients

2 tablespoons olive oil
2 large skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, cut into cubes
2 chayote squashes, diced
2 large potatoes, diced
1 small onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
salt and ground black pepper to taste

Directions

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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.

Chicken + chayotetop 14% of all pairs

Aroma overlaplow

Mentioned together14 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together29,030 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Potato + oniontop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together9,019 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together23,449 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Potato + garlictop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together4,512 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, chicken, chayote, potato, garlic, pepper):

Tomatobetter flavor fit
Capsicumabout as good a flavor fit
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, chicken, chayote, potato, garlic, pepper. 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).

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