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Chinese Five Spice Chicken

"Chinese five-spice is made up of cloves, anise, star anise, cinnamon and ginger and can be bought in the supermarket in the spice aisle. These chicken breasts are sprinkled with spice, marinated and baked."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Chinese Five Spice Chicken

Why it works: Garlic and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 25,665 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Chinese Five Spice Chicken

2 servings
Prep5 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. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Chicken + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,850 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  3. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Chicken + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together11,888 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together30,263 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

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

  1. Garlicthe original
  2. Rosemaryabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Thymeabout as good a flavor fit

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