Why it works: Chicken and tarragon work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 559 recipes mention both. Both carry anethole, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Directions
Bring chicken broth to a boil in small saucepan. Completely dissolve gelatin in boiling broth. Add water, pineapple, lemon juice, tarragon and white pepper. Refrigerate until slightly thickened. Stir in chicken, celery and red pepper. Spoon into 4 individual plastic containers or serving dishes. Refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours. Diabetic exchange(per serving): 2 lean meat, 1 vegetable; also 160 calories, 45mg cholesterol, 450mg sodium, 3gm fat, 11g carbohydrate, 22g protein. Lifted from the jell-o sugar free cookboo
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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.
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Chicken + tarragontop 7% of all pairsAroma overlaplowMentioned together559 recipes
Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).
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Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together14,036 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Tarragon + parsleytop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,259 recipes
Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
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Lemon + tarragontop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together884 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Gelatin + sugartop 5% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together2,778 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the pineapple
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, lemon, gelatin, sugar, tarragon, white pepper, parsley):
- Limebetter flavor fit
- Orangebetter flavor fit
- Cherrybetter flavor fit
- Pineapplethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, lemon, gelatin, sugar, tarragon, white pepper, parsley. 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).
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