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Buttermilk Brined Chicken with Cress and Bread Salad

Brining the chickens in buttermilk tenderizes the meat and keeps it moist. The flavorful pan juices are used to make croutons and a robust dressing for the pepper watercress and bread salad.

By bonappetit · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Marjoram and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,627 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl decanoate, which smells grape, waxy. The science ↓

The recipe

6-8 servings

Ingredients

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

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By bonappetit. 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. Marjoram + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,627 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl decanoate (grape, waxy).

  2. Lemon + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together957 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

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

  4. Marjoram + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Butter + breadtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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 (lemon, buttermilk, garlic, chicken, marjoram, butter, pepper):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, buttermilk, garlic, chicken, marjoram, butter, pepper. 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).