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Truffle-stuffed Roast Chicken with Vegetables and Cream Sauce

Add luxury to roast chicken with truffles and a rich, creamy sauce made from homemade chicken stock. Perfect for a posh Sunday roast.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Truffle and peas match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 139 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

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

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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. Truffle + peastop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together139 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Carrot + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Pepper + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,585 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,555 recipes

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

  5. Leek + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together360 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, butter, truffle, pepper, carrot, leek, thyme):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, butter, truffle, pepper, carrot, leek, thyme. 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).