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Roast Chicken with Beetroot and Halloumi Salad

Spice up your weekend roast chicken with fragrant harissa paste. Serve with a gloriously pink beetroot bulgur salad.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 21 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and beetroot work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and 292 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl butyrate, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4-6
Prep30 min
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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. Chicken + beetroottop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together292 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  2. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

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

  3. Cumin + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,272 recipes

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

  4. Garlic + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Cumin + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,083 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the caraway

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cumin, garlic, tomato, red wine, vinegar, chicken, olive):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Oreganobetter flavor fit
  3. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  4. Carawaythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cumin, garlic, tomato, red wine, vinegar, chicken, olive. 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).