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Honey Mustard and Garlic Spatchcock Chicken with Sweet Potato and Mint Mash

Spatchcock chicken takes far less cooking time than a regular whole roast chicken so don’t be alarmed! If you are a little bit squeamish about opening up a chicken this way then get your butcher to do it for you, who I am sure will happily oblige. However it is great practice to be able to do it yourself.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and thyme are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,585 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Honey Mustard and Garlic Spatchcock Chicken with Sweet Potato and Mint Mash

Serves 4-6
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1033Calories
50 gProtein
17 gFat
164 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
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Peppermintnot 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. Pepper + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

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

  2. Sunflower + sweet potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Garlic + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,608 recipes

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

  4. Mustard + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together913 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Sunflower + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together147 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, garlic, sunflower, pepper, mustard, honey, thyme):

  1. Broccolifits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Kalefits better
  4. Sweet potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, garlic, sunflower, pepper, mustard, honey, thyme. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.