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Mushroom Chicken in Sour Cream Sauce

"Chicken breasts seasoned with paprika, lemon pepper, and garlic powder are slow cooked with white wine, sour cream, mushrooms, and cream of mushroom soup in this easy-to-prepare recipe that cooks while you go about your day."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Mushroom Chicken in Sour Cream Sauce

Why it works: Pepper and lemon 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 ↓

Mushroom Chicken in Sour Cream Sauce

6 chicken breasts
Prep10 min
Cook8 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

393Calories
54 gProtein
10 gFat
18 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  3. Mushroom + white winetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  4. Garlic + mushroomtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Garlic + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,850 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

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 (pepper, garlic, chicken, cream, mushroom, white wine):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Plumfits about as well
  3. Limefits less well
  4. Grapefits less well

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