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Special Sunday Roast Chicken

Why it works: Yam and sweet potato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 99 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Special Sunday Roast Chicken

Makes 4 to 6 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

675Calories
38 gProtein
30 gFat
62 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 15 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Parsnip1/2 cup (78g)55
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Sage1 tsp ground (0.7g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Yamnot in our table0
Waternot 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 epicurious. 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. Yam + sweet potatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together99 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Carrot + parsniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,097 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Yam + parsniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Sweet potato + parsniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together95 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Potato + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yam, sweet potato, carrot, parsnip, olive, butter, sage):

  1. Turnipfits better
  2. Beetrootfits better
  3. Okrafits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against yam, sweet potato, carrot, parsnip, olive, butter, sage. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.