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Cranberry Curry Chicken

"A recipe from my mother-in-law with a delicious Middle Eastern flavor! Serve with jasmine rice."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and berry work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and 25 recipes mention both. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

The recipe

10 servings
Prep10 min
Cook1 hr 35 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Arrange the chicken thighs in a 9x13-inch baking dish in a single layer.

  2. In a bowl, stir together the cranberry sauce, curry powder, cubed apple and raisins. Taste and add more curry powder if you like.

  3. Spoon the cranberry mixture over the chicken, spreading it so the thighs are coated. Cover the dish tightly with foil.

  4. Bake covered for 45 minutes.

  5. Uncover the dish, baste the chicken with the sauce from the bottom of the dish, and bake 45 to 50 minutes more, until the thickest part of the chicken reaches 165°F (74°C).

  6. Let the chicken rest for 5 minutes before serving with the sauce spooned over it.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Chicken + berrytop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Cranberry + appletop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together169 recipes

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

  3. Berry + cranberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together68 recipes

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

  4. Berry + appletop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together32 recipes

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

  5. Apple + raisintop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, berry, cranberry, sauce, apple):

  1. Grapebetter flavor fit
  2. Orangebetter flavor fit
  3. Peachbetter flavor fit
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, berry, cranberry, sauce, apple. 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).