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Marco Pierre White's Curried Chicken Recipe

Marco Pierre White shares his quick way to do curried chicken.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Rosemary and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 845 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Marco Pierre White's Curried Chicken Recipe

4 people
Prep10 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

313Calories
33 gProtein
18 gFat
6 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Watercress1 cup (34g)4

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

By lovefood. 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. Rosemary + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together845 recipes

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

  2. Watercress + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together579 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,590 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

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

  5. Olive + watercresstop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together684 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, olive, rosemary, watercress):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Limefits less well
  4. Orangefits less well

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