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Pasta with Roasted Chicken, Raisins, Pine Nuts, and Parsley Recipe

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By chow · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Pasta with Roasted Chicken, Raisins, Pine Nuts, and Parsley Recipe

Why it works: Rosemary and pine share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 65 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Pasta with Roasted Chicken, Raisins, Pine Nuts, and Parsley Recipe

4 to 6 servings
Cook50 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

560Calories
36 gProtein
37 gFat
26 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. 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. Rosemary + pinetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together65 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Rosemary + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together845 recipes

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

  3. Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,590 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Pine + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together480 recipes

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

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 (raisin, olive, chicken, pepper, rosemary, pine, lemon):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

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