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Don't Want to Cook Monday Chicken

"Tired of everything being spicy and looking for a quick, nice dinner with a subtle flavor? Try this! Chicken breasts are laid on a bed of broccoli, and blanketed with a mushroom sauce with a hint of horseradish. Great with garlic bread! Of course - if subtle isn't what you're looking for - you can spice this up all you want!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Don't Want to Cook Monday Chicken

Why it works: Broccoli and horseradish share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 86 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Don't Want to Cook Monday Chicken

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

335Calories
54 gProtein
5 gFat
19 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Soupnot in our table0
Horseradishnot 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. Broccoli + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together86 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  3. Broccoli + mushroomtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together539 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Mushroom + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,500 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Mushroom + horseradishtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together269 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the horseradish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, broccoli, mushroom, cream):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Horseradishthe original

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