Name: Citrus-spiked Chicken with Roasted Red Onions
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 orange; 1 lemon; 4 tbsp fine cut marmalade , Tiptree Orange and Tangerine Fine Cut are best; 2 tbsp olive oil; 4 boneless chicken breast fillets , skin on or off; a small bunch of fresh thyme; 3 medium red onions , peeled and cut into thin wedges; 200g couscous; 1 tbsp fresh parsley , chopped

Why it works: Thyme and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Citrus-spiked Chicken with Roasted Red Onions

Serves 4

Ingredients

1 orange
1 lemon
4 tbsp fine cut marmalade , Tiptree Orange and Tangerine Fine Cut are best
2 tbsp olive oil
4 boneless chicken breast fillets , skin on or off
a small bunch of fresh thyme
3 medium red onions , peeled and cut into thin wedges
200g couscous
1 tbsp fresh parsley , chopped

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

583Calories

40 gProtein

18 gFat

67 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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Couscous	1 cup cooked (157g)	176
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Red Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Tangerine	not in our table	0

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.

Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,057 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,037 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,973 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together10,634 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Olive + thymetop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together4,948 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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

Swap the tangerine

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, lemon, olive, chicken, thyme, onion, parsley):

Limefits better
Avocadofits better
Cherryfits better
Tangerinethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, lemon, olive, chicken, thyme, onion, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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