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Easy Honey Mustard Mozzarella Chicken

"This is simple, and very yummy! My husband loves it and he is as picky as they come! Just throw in the oven and relax. Goes great with rice or noodles. Enjoy!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Easy Honey Mustard Mozzarella Chicken

Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Easy Honey Mustard Mozzarella Chicken

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

378Calories
41 gProtein
14 gFat
24 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Mustard + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Mustard + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,816 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Chicken + mustardtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  5. Chicken + mozzarella cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together600 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, honey, mustard, pepper, mozzarella cheese):

  1. Grapefits better
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Avocadofits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

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