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Cold Poached Chicken Steeped in a Tomato and Smoked Garlic Dressing with Asparagus and New Potato

Tasty poached chicken with a herby tomato and garlic dressing is served with a simple-to-make potato salad. Serve with pesto or sun-dried tomato bread for a summer weekend lunch party.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 14,075 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: egg, soy, fish (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. Garlic + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

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

  3. Tarragon + basiltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together292 recipes

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

  4. Coriander + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,966 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Shallot + tarragontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together492 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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 (corn, chicken, garlic, tarragon, coriander, basil, tomato):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, chicken, garlic, tarragon, coriander, basil, tomato. 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).