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Chicken, Bacon & Watercress Baguettes

This hearty baguette will really hit the spot when feeding a hungry crowd for lunch

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Chicken, Bacon & Watercress Baguettes

Why it works: Watercress and lime share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Chicken, Bacon & Watercress Baguettes

Serves 4
Prep20 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

223Calories
35 gProtein
7 gFat
4 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Watercress1 cup (34g)4

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. Watercress + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Watercress + chickentop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together248 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  3. Lime + chickentop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,581 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Swap the lime

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

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Lemonfits about as well
  3. Limethe original
  4. Coconutfits less well

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