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All-in-one Roast Chicken & Veg

Fancy the flavour of a roast, but not the fat? Try this simple, healthy one-pan recipe

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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All-in-one Roast Chicken & Veg

Why it works: Leek and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 360 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

All-in-one Roast Chicken & Veg

Serves 2
Prep10 min
Cook50 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

522Calories
37 gProtein
18 gFat
55 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4

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. Leek + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together360 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Carrot + leektop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,310 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Carrot + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Olive + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,948 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Potato + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

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

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

Swap the leek

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, olive, carrot, thyme, chicken):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Parsnipfits about as well
  4. Leekthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, olive, carrot, thyme, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.