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Roasted Chicken & New Potato Salad

Throw together a lovely summery roasted chicken and new potato salad - good source of vitamin C

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and chicken match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,756 recipes mention both. Both carry (z)-4-decenal, which smells green, must. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Potato + chickentop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,756 recipes

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

  2. Yogurt + honeytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together659 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Tarragon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,691 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Potato + yogurttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together983 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  5. Potato + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,303 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 tarragon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, chicken, yogurt, honey, pepper):

  1. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  2. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  3. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  4. Tarragonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, chicken, yogurt, honey, pepper. 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).