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Parchment-Baked Chicken with New Potatoes, Peas and Tarragon

Tarragon lends its sweet anise notes to the buttery juices of mild-tasting chicken breasts baked in parchment paper. Spring’s fresh English peas and newly harvested potatoes add substance and bright color to this simple, light and fresh dish.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Tarragon and peas work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 153 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By williamssonoma. 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. Tarragon + peastop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together153 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Tarragon + shallottop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together492 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Mustard + tarragontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together573 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  4. Mustard + shallottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together842 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Chicken + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pepper, butter, tarragon, shallot, potato, peas):

  1. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  2. Chivebetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, butter, tarragon, shallot, potato, peas. 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).