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Chicken Coconut Curry

"Sauteed chicken breasts in a coconut curry sauce with vegetables, raisins, and apple. Absolutely delicious! Serve over rice."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Chicken Coconut Curry

Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Chicken Coconut Curry

6 servings
Prep20 min
Cook50 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1142Calories
50 gProtein
33 gFat
164 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Chicken100g cooked165
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Curry Powder1 tsp (2g)7
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Flour + raisintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, carrot, celery, onion, flour, coconut, milk):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, carrot, celery, onion, flour, coconut, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.