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Zesty Chicken and Potatoes

"A quick and easy, great tasting light meal with an little extra kick!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Zesty Chicken and Potatoes

Why it works: Lime and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,289 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Zesty Chicken and Potatoes

5 servings
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

357Calories
36 gProtein
4 gFat
46 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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. Lime + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,289 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + rosemarytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together845 recipes

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

  3. Rosemary + clovetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together519 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Potato + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,517 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Rosemary + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,180 recipes

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

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lime, lemon, rosemary, potato, garlic, chicken):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Corianderfits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lime, lemon, rosemary, potato, garlic, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.