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Roasted Mustard Tarragon Chicken

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Tarragon and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 573 recipes mention both. Both carry methyleugenol, which smells clove, spice. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 4 to 6 servings

Ingredients

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

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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 + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together573 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  2. Chicken + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  3. Chicken + tarragontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together559 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  4. Tarragon + flourtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together562 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Mustard + flourtop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,913 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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