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Baked Chicory with Chicken in a Sage & Mustard Sauce

A perfectly creamy chicory and chicken dish for a dinner party

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicory and mustard share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 44 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (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. Chicory + mustardtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Shallot + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together842 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Chicken + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  5. White wine + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicory, olive, white wine, chicken, butter, garlic, flour):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Onionbetter flavor fit
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicory, olive, white wine, chicken, butter, garlic, flour. 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).