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Enchiladas

"These are beef filled tortilla shells baked in a creamy chicken soup and cheese sauce. My husband absolutely loves these. I served them to guests once with Mexican rice, and they went home with the recipe. Enjoy!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Enchiladas

Why it works: Beef and chicken match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,148 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Enchiladas

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

839Calories
86 gProtein
35 gFat
42 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Chicken100g cooked165
Corn Tortilla1 medium flour (45g)140
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Jalapeno Pepper1 pepper (14g)4
Waternot in our table0
Taconot 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. Beef + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

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

  3. Onion + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

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

  4. Jalapeno + corntop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together494 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Chicken + corntop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,666 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the jalapeno

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, onion, yogurt, cream, chicken, mozzarella cheese, corn):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. Jalapenothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, onion, yogurt, cream, chicken, mozzarella cheese, corn. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.