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Flattened Chicken with Tomatoes, Olives & Capers

Eating on your own needn't mean beans on toast, as this 20-minute supper proves

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Flattened Chicken with Tomatoes, Olives & Capers

Why it works: Capers and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 245 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Flattened Chicken with Tomatoes, Olives & Capers

Serves 1
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

794Calories
46 gProtein
19 gFat
102 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Olive1 large (4g)4
Capers1 tbsp (9g) drained2
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Waternot 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 bbcgoodfood. 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. Capers + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together245 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

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

  3. Olive + caperstop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Flour + caperstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,024 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Olive + chivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, flour, olive, capers, white wine, chive):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Kalefits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, flour, olive, capers, white wine, chive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.