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Cornflake Chicken Casserole

"This is a a quick casserole, especially if you have leftover chicken on hand. I found this in a church cookbook my grandmother gave to me. With a few modifications, I found this easy and delicious!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Cornflake Chicken Casserole

Why it works: Water chestnut and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 205 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Cornflake Chicken Casserole

8 servings
Prep15 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

446Calories
39 gProtein
26 gFat
12 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 9 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Soupnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Chestnutnot 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 allrecipes. 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. Water chestnut + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together205 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Celery + water chestnuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together78 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

Swap the water chestnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, chicken, celery, onion, butter):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Water chestnutthe original
  4. Lemonfits about as well

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