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Chicken in a Bag with Sage & Buttered Potatoes

Cooking potatoes along with other ingredients, rather than on their own as a side dish, means they absorb lots of flavour

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Chicken in a Bag with Sage & Buttered Potatoes

Why it works: Sage and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 887 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Chicken in a Bag with Sage & Buttered Potatoes

Serves 4

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

442Calories
36 gProtein
15 gFat
41 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Sage1 tsp ground (0.7g)2

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. Sage + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together887 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

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

  3. Potato + sagetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together386 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Potato + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

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

  5. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

Swap the sage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, butter, chicken, lemon):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Rosemaryfits better
  4. Sagethe original

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