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Creamy Italian Slow Cooker Chicken

"A creamy, yummy chicken dish to serve over thick pasta, like egg noodles or farfalle. This pleased everyone! It's easy to prepare and highly addictive. Easy to make lower calorie/fat with low fat cream cheese and low fat/salt soup! Serve sprinkled with Parmesan cheese, if desired."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and sherry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 22 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep5 min
Cook4 hr 30 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Place the chicken breast halves in a 4 to 6 quart slow cooker in a single layer.

  2. Drizzle the melted butter over the chicken, then sprinkle the dry Italian-style dressing mix evenly on top.

  3. In a bowl, stir the condensed cream of chicken soup and dry sherry together until smooth, then spoon it over the chicken.

  4. Scatter the cubed cream cheese over the top.

  5. Cover and cook on low for 4 to 4.5 hours (240 to 270 minutes), until the chicken is tender.

  6. Check that the thickest part of the chicken reaches 165°F (74°C) before serving.

  7. Stir the sauce in the slow cooker until creamy, then spoon it over the chicken to serve.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cream cheese + sherrytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Butter + cream cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  4. Butter + sherrytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,505 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Cream cheese + creamtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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