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Nancy's Chicken in Puff Pastry

"Chicken breasts with herbed cream cheese, wrapped in puff pastry and baked. A very easy but delicious dish, good for company! This recipe is derived from a dish my mother-in-law makes."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Nancy's Chicken in Puff Pastry

Why it works: Pepper and chive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,885 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Nancy's Chicken in Puff Pastry

4 servings
Prep20 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

390Calories
33 gProtein
27 gFat
3 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pastrynot 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 + chivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Cream cheese + chivetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together204 recipes

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

  3. Chicken + chivetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together572 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Pepper + chickentop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  5. Chicken + cream cheesetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together380 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the chive

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Chivethe original

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