Name: Chicken Cacciatore
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 1 pound Pasta Or Egg Noodles; 8 whole Chicken Thighs, Skin On (can Use Any Whole Piece Chicken); Salt And Freshly Ground Black Pepper, To Taste; 1/2 cup All-purpose Flour; 4 Tablespoons Olive Oil; 2 Tablespoons Butter; 1 whole Medium Onion, Halved And Sliced; 2 whole Red Bell Peppers, Cored And Sliced (not Too Thin); 2 whole Green Bell Peppers, Cored And Sliced (not Too Thin); 5 cloves Garlic, Diced; 12 ounces, weight Mushrooms (white Or Crimini), Sliced; 1/2 teaspoon Ground Thyme; 1/4 teaspoon Turmeric; 1/2 teaspoon Kosher Salt; Red Pepper Flakes, Crushed, To Taste (optional); 3/4 cups Dry White Wine; 1 can (28 Ounce) Whole Or Diced Tomatoes (with Their Juice); Chopped Flat Leaf Parsley; Parmesan Cheese, For Sprinkling

Why it works: Pepper and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,451 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

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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.

Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Pasta + olivetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,227 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Pasta + flourtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together659 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Olive + oniontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together29,779 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Pasta + oniontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,961 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pasta, chicken, pepper, flour, olive, butter, onion):

Garlicfits better
Capersfits better
Thymefits better
Clovethe original

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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Pasta	1 cup cooked (140g)	220
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Parmesan Cheese	1 oz (28g)	110
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Red Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Green Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Turmeric	1 tsp ground (3g)	9
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Chicken Cacciatore