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Linguine with Chicken and Vegetables in a Cream Sauce

"Moist chicken breasts are served with linguine in a creamy sauce dotted with broccoli, zucchini, and mushrooms."

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Linguine with Chicken and Vegetables in a Cream Sauce

Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Linguine with Chicken and Vegetables in a Cream Sauce

8 servings
Prep30 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

821Calories
58 gProtein
31 gFat
76 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Chicken100g cooked165
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Pasta + broccolitop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together286 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Garlic + broccolitop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,072 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Garlic + pastatop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,079 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Onion + broccolitop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the broccoli

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, pepper, onion, butter, chicken, white wine, pasta):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Spinachfits about as well
  3. Shallotfits about as well
  4. Broccolithe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, pepper, onion, butter, chicken, white wine, pasta. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.