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Slow Poached Chicken, Sweetcorn Egg, Spinach with Bacon and Peas

For this dish you will need: 4 metal mousse rings (roughly 10cm x 4.5cm/4in x 1¾ in), two A4 acetate sheets and a juicer.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 58 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

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (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. Truffle + peastop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together139 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Shallot + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Olive + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,641 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Shallot + peastop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together173 recipes

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

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 (sweetcorn, egg, truffle, pepper, olive, thyme, chicken):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweetcorn, egg, truffle, pepper, olive, thyme, chicken. 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).