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Thai Potato and Chicken Curry Recipe

This recipe is a one pot wonder – ideal to use up veggies you might have left over from the weekly shop, (mine are just a suggestion) but Maris Pipers are key in this dish.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and chicken match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,756 recipes mention both. Both carry (z)-4-decenal, which smells green, must. The science ↓

The recipe

4 people
Prep20 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Potato + chickentop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,756 recipes

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

  2. Sunflower + coconuttop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together193 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).

  3. Onion + potatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,019 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Tomato + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,797 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Tomato + chickentop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,027 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, onion, tomato, potato, chicken, pepper, fish sauce):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Avocadoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Mangoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, onion, tomato, potato, chicken, pepper, fish sauce. 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).