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Garlic and Walnut Crusted Chicken

"Change up your chicken routine with this richly flavored chicken dish. Served on top of a bed of spinach, leeks and Brussels sprouts, this is a very nutrient-rich dish!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Garlic and Walnut Crusted Chicken

Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Garlic and Walnut Crusted Chicken

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1062Calories
52 gProtein
34 gFat
138 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 14 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Pomegranate1/2 cup seeds (87g)72
Brussels Sprouts1 cup (156g)56
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Seednot 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.

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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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Parsley + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Thyme + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,476 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Garlic + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,435 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Shallot + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together198 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 brussels sprouts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, walnut, parsley, thyme, butter, shallot, spinach):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Kalefits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Brussels sproutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, walnut, parsley, thyme, butter, shallot, spinach. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.