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Chicken with Chorizo & Leeks

This Spanish-style dish is full of flavour and can be made ahead

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Chicken with Chorizo & Leeks

Why it works: Olive and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Chicken with Chorizo & Leeks

Serves 10
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

436Calories
35 gProtein
18 gFat
30 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Fennel1/2 bulb (87g)27
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Coriandernot 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. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Leek + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Fennel + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together350 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Leek + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together579 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Fennel + leektop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, chicken, fennel, leek, garlic, clove, sherry):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Avocadofits about as well
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, chicken, fennel, leek, garlic, clove, sherry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.