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Chicken Thighs with Pea Custard and Pea Salad

Chicken thighs are simply fried and served with a lightly spiced pea salad and a pea-flavoured custard.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and marjoram match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 287 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Chicken Thighs with Pea Custard and Pea Salad

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

554Calories
42 gProtein
28 gFat
29 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 13 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Marjoramnot in our table0
Pea Shootsnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Shallot + marjoramtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together287 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Peas + shallottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together173 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Peas + marjoramtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together101 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the marjoram

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, egg, sugar, vanilla, peas, cream, shallot):

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Cinnamonfits better
  4. Marjoramthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, egg, sugar, vanilla, peas, cream, shallot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.