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Chicken & Pistachio Pilaf

Throw some chicken and rice into a pot with aromatic spices and sour cherries for a low-fat feast

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and pistachio work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 94 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (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. Chicken + pistachiotop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together94 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Allspice + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Olive + yogurttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  4. Onion + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Olive + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the allspice

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, onion, chicken, cinnamon, basmati rice, pistachio, yogurt):

  1. Cardamombetter flavor fit
  2. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  3. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  4. Allspicethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, onion, chicken, cinnamon, basmati rice, pistachio, yogurt. 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).