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Creamy Ranch Chicken and Carrots

"Get a little saucy with this all-in-one skillet dish featuring chicken, rice, carrots and a creamy mushroom-ranch sauce. It's ready to serve in just 30 minutes!"

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Why it works: Ranch and carrot work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and 33 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep5 min
Cook25 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. Cook the rice in a pot of boiling water following the package directions, then keep it warm covered.

  2. Heat the vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cut the chicken breast halves into bite-size pieces and cook them for 5 to 6 minutes, stirring, until browned and cooked through to 165°F (74°C) in the thickest part.

  3. Add the frozen crinkle-cut carrots to the skillet. Cover and cook over medium heat for 6 to 8 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the carrots are tender.

  4. Stir in the condensed cream of mushroom soup, milk, and ranch salad dressing mix until smooth.

  5. Reduce the heat to low and simmer uncovered for 4 to 5 minutes, stirring, until the sauce thickens slightly.

  6. Spoon the chicken and carrots with sauce over the cooked rice and serve hot.

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. Ranch + carrottop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together33 recipes

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

  2. Chicken + ricetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,569 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Milk + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,354 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Carrot + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,351 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Chicken + milktop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,387 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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