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Chicken in Pancetta with Pine Nut, Sun-blush Tomato and Basil Stuffing

There are plenty of pancetta-wrapped chicken suppers out there, but this one takes some beating!

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Pine and chicken work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 234 recipes mention both. Both carry anethole, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Pine + chickentop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together234 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

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

  3. Pine + basiltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together332 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  4. Basil + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,979 recipes

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

  5. Garlic + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pine, nuts, olive, garlic, basil, tomato, egg):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  3. Eggplantbetter flavor fit
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pine, nuts, olive, garlic, basil, tomato, egg. 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).