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Mussakhan

Spiced chicken and onions sautéed in sumac are roasted on top of flatbread, which absorbs all the delicious flavours and doubles up as a serving plate.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Sunflower and pine share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 35 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Mussakhan

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

542Calories
37 gProtein
37 gFat
20 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Allspice1 tsp ground (1.9g)5
Olive1 large (4g)4
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Sunflower Oilnot 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. Sunflower + pinetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Lemon + pinetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together480 recipes

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

  3. Olive + pinetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

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

  5. Olive + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together698 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, lemon, allspice, onion, olive, sunflower, pine):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Nutsthe original

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