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Lemon and Rosemary Chicken

"Bone-in chicken braises in a flavorful combination of garlic, rosemary, tomatoes and lemon to create an absolutely scrumptious family-style dish."

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Why it works: Lemon and rosemary match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 845 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook55 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 425°F (220°C). Cut one lemon into thin slices and juice the other lemon into a small bowl.

  2. Pat the chicken pieces dry. Heat the olive oil in a large oven-safe skillet over medium-high heat. Brown the chicken in batches, skin side down, for about 5 minutes, then turn and brown 3 to 4 minutes more. Transfer to a plate.

  3. Lower the heat to medium. Add the minced garlic and chopped rosemary to the pan and cook, stirring, for 1 minute until fragrant.

  4. Add the diced tomatoes with their juice, the chicken broth and the lemon juice. Scrape up any browned bits from the pan and simmer for 5 minutes.

  5. Return the chicken to the skillet, skin side up, nestling the pieces in the sauce. Arrange the lemon slices around and over the chicken.

  6. Transfer the skillet to the oven and roast for 35 to 40 minutes, until the chicken reaches 165°F (74°C) in the thickest part.

  7. Let the chicken rest in the pan for 5 minutes before serving with the sauce spooned over.

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. Lemon + rosemarytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together845 recipes

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

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

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

  3. Garlic + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,489 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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 (lemon, olive, chicken, rosemary, tomato):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Basilbetter flavor fit
  3. Oreganobetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, olive, chicken, rosemary, tomato. 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).