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BBQ Roast Chicken & Chunky Chips

A naughty takeaway favourite made into a real meal. This chicken and chips combo just needs a bit of salad to ensure your halo

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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BBQ Roast Chicken & Chunky Chips

Why it works: Potato and sunflower match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 303 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

BBQ Roast Chicken & Chunky Chips

Serves 4
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

375Calories
35 gProtein
4 gFat
50 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0

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. Potato + sunflowertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Potato + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,756 recipes

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

  3. Sunflower + chickentop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together315 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Sugar + sunflowertop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together678 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Sugar + potatotop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, sunflower, chicken):

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Mustardfits about as well
  3. Sweet potatofits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, sunflower, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.