Name: Baked Nam Yee Chicken & Warm Salad
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 cube Nam Yee (See Note); 2 Tablespoons Pickling Liquid From Jar Of Nam Yee; 1 teaspoon Honey; 2 teaspoons Salt, Divided; 4 whole Chicken Drumsticks, Skin On; 1 whole Red Onion, Peeled And Cut Into 4 Thick Discs; 5 whole New Potatoes, Halved; 10 cloves Garlic, Root End Cut But Skin Left On; 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil; 1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice; 4 whole Olives, Pitted And Chopped; 1 head Frillice Lettuce, Chopped Roughly; ½ whole Red Bell Pepper, Seeded And Sliced Thinly

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,058 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

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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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together9,023 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Potato + garlictop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together4,517 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together6,458 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (honey, chicken, onion, potato, garlic, olive, lemon):

Thymebetter flavor fit
Rosemarybetter flavor fit
Corianderbetter flavor fit
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against honey, chicken, onion, potato, garlic, olive, lemon. 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).

Baked Nam Yee Chicken & Warm Salad