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Lemon and Honey Spatchcock Chicken with Quinoa and Broad Bean Salad

This is the perfect dish for dinning al fresco this summer with its combination exotic flavours of preserved lemon, chillies, Queen green olives and herbs.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 21 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and rosemary match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 845 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Lemon and Honey Spatchcock Chicken with Quinoa and Broad Bean Salad

Serves 4
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

766Calories
46 gProtein
36 gFat
70 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 17 ingredients. The other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Quinoa1 cup cooked (185g)222
Chicken100g cooked165
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Olive1 large (4g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Rapeseed Oilnot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Seednot in our table0
Broad Beannot 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. Lemon + rosemarytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together845 recipes

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

  2. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Rosemary + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,590 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Garlic + rosemarytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,180 recipes

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

  5. Lemon + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together352 recipes

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

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

Swap the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, garlic, rosemary, honey, olive, chicken, sunflower):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Pumpkinthe original

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