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Harissa-spiced Chicken with Bulghar Wheat

This spicy Harrissa dish will bring the taste of Morocco to your home

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and coriander match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 170 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: wheat, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Wheat + coriandertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together170 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Sunflower + pinetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Sunflower + coriandertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together369 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Harissa + coriandertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together105 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Chicken + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (harissa, rose, chicken, sunflower, onion, pine, apricot):

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  3. Pistachiobetter flavor fit
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against harissa, rose, chicken, sunflower, onion, pine, apricot. 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).