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Cranberry Chicken III

"Why wait for Thanksgiving to enjoy cranberries? Chicken with cranberry sauce makes a great summertime treat."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Cranberry Chicken III

Why it works: Sauce and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 173 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Cranberry Chicken III

4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

412Calories
35 gProtein
17 gFat
35 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Cranberry1 cup raw (100g)46
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saucenot in our table0
Syrupnot 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. Sauce + syruptop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together173 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Cranberry + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together210 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Pepper + corntop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Pepper + cranberrytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together218 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

Swap the cranberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pepper, sauce, corn, syrup, lemon, butter):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Avocadofits about as well
  4. Cranberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, sauce, corn, syrup, lemon, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.