Name: Chicken Pa Nang
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon vegetable oil; 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, thinly sliced; 1 teaspoon red curry paste; 1 tablespoon sugar; 1 red bell pepper, cut into strips; 1 green bell pepper, cut into strips; 1 small onion, cut into strips; 1 (10 ounce) can coconut milk; 1 tablespoon fish sauce

Why it works: Chicken and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,814 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Chicken Pa Nang

4 servings

Prep25 min

Cook15 min

Ingredients

1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, thinly sliced
1 teaspoon red curry paste
1 tablespoon sugar
1 red bell pepper, cut into strips
1 green bell pepper, cut into strips
1 small onion, cut into strips
1 (10 ounce) can coconut milk
1 tablespoon fish sauce

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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.

Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,814 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).
Coconut + milktop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,648 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Chicken + coconuttop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together808 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).
Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together68,474 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Onion + coconuttop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,831 recipes

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

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 (chicken, sugar, pepper, coconut, milk, fish sauce):

Capsicumbetter flavor fit
Sweet potatobetter flavor fit
Potatobetter flavor fit
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sugar, pepper, coconut, milk, fish sauce. 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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