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Easy and Delicious Chicken

"A slow cooker recipe that is the best! You can start with frozen chicken breasts without having to adjust the cooking time."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Easy and Delicious Chicken

Why it works: Basil and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,768 recipes. Both carry terpineol, which smells pine, woody. The science ↓

Easy and Delicious Chicken

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook9 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

326Calories
34 gProtein
19 gFat
4 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Salad Dressingnot in our table0
Soupnot 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. Basil + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  2. Thyme + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Basil + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  4. Chicken + thymetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,173 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + basiltop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

Swap the thyme

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, cream, cream cheese, basil, pepper):

  1. Garlicfits about as well
  2. Oreganofits about as well
  3. Thymethe original
  4. Rosemaryfits about as well

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