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Chicken Roulade with with Saffron Potatoes and Honey, Walnut and Pine Nut Sauce

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Why it works: Chicken and pine work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 234 recipes mention both. Both carry anethole, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep2 hr
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (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. Chicken + pinetop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together234 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  2. Chicken + mushroomtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  3. Sage + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,388 recipes

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

  4. Onion + potatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,019 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Pine + walnuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together311 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 chestnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, olive, onion, mushroom, sage, pepper, butter):

  1. Beansbetter flavor fit
  2. Peasbetter flavor fit
  3. Lima beansbetter flavor fit
  4. Chestnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, olive, onion, mushroom, sage, pepper, butter. 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).