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All-in-one Chicken, Potatoes & Green Beans

This one-dish summer roast is a great way of entertaining friends and family in the garden

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Green beans and potato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 81 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat the oven to 200°C (400°F).

  2. Put the new potatoes and halved cherry tomatoes in a large roasting tin and tuck in the bay leaves.

  3. Spread the grain mustard all over the whole chicken, then set it breast side up in the middle of the tin on top of the potatoes and tomatoes.

  4. Roast for 1 hour.

  5. Scatter the topped and tailed green beans around the chicken, toss them lightly in the tin juices, and roast for a further 20 minutes.

  6. Check the chicken is cooked by inserting a meat thermometer into the thickest part of the thigh and breast; it should read 165°F (74°C). If not, roast for 10 more minutes and check again.

  7. Let the chicken rest for 10 minutes, then discard the bay leaves.

  8. Scatter the chopped parsley over the chicken and vegetables and serve from the tin.

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. Green beans + potatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81 recipes

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

  2. Potato + chickentop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  3. Potato + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Potato + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,339 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Green beans + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (green beans, potato, chicken, mustard, parsley):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Limebetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against green beans, potato, chicken, mustard, parsley. 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).