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Cranberry Glazed Chicken

"Don't limit cranberry sauce to holiday turkey dinners. Blend it with Heinz ketchup and a hint of spice to make a delicious sauce for tender chicken breasts. Serve with creamy mashed potatoes and steamed green beans on the side to complete the meal."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and cranberry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 66 recipes mention both. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook15 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 400°F (200°C). Lightly oil a baking dish or rimmed sheet pan.

  2. Pat the chicken breasts dry and season them lightly with the allspice and sugar.

  3. Heat the vegetable oil in an ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat. Sear the chicken for 3 minutes per side until golden.

  4. In a small bowl, stir together the ketchup and cranberry sauce until smooth.

  5. Spoon half of the cranberry glaze over the chicken in the skillet or transfer the chicken to the baking dish and spoon the glaze over the top.

  6. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes until the chicken reaches 165°F (74°C) in the thickest part.

  7. Rest the chicken for 3 minutes. Warm the remaining glaze in a small pan for 1 minute and spoon it over the chicken before serving.

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. Tomato + cranberrytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together66 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Ketchup + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Chicken + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Ketchup + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Tomato + saucetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together5,468 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the allspice

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, tomato, ketchup, cranberry, sauce, sugar):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Celerybetter flavor fit
  3. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  4. Allspicethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, tomato, ketchup, cranberry, sauce, sugar. 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).