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Asian Poached Chicken with Basmati & Cucumber

You’ll love this easy, quick and healthy midweek dinner - ready in just 20 minutes

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Basmati rice and chicken work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 289 recipes mention both. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

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

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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. Basmati rice + chickentop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together289 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Ginger + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,531 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Chicken + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  4. Cucumber + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together364 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Garlic + cucumbertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,548 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (basmati rice, chicken, garlic, sauce, cucumber, sesame):

  1. Corianderabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against basmati rice, chicken, garlic, sauce, cucumber, sesame. 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).