Name: Old Fashioned Chicken Pot Pie
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Yield: 1 - 9 inch pie
Ingredients: 2 pounds cooked chicken, chopped; 1 (15 ounce) can mixed vegetables; 1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of potato soup; 1/4 cup milk; 1/4 teaspoon black pepper; 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme; 1/4 teaspoon dried parsley; salt to taste; 1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch double crust pie

Why it works: Thyme and parsley 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 ↓

Old Fashioned Chicken Pot Pie

1 - 9 inch pie

Prep10 min

Cook25 min

Ingredients

2 pounds cooked chicken, chopped
1 (15 ounce) can mixed vegetables
1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of potato soup
1/4 cup milk
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
1/4 teaspoon dried parsley
salt to taste
1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch double crust pie

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

657Calories

44 gProtein

31 gFat

52 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 12 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Vegetable	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Soup	not in our table	0
Pastry	not in our table	0
Pie	not in our table	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.

Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,057 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Pepper + thymetop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,585 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,855 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Potato + thymetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,586 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the parsley

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

Marjoramfits about as well
Rosemaryfits about as well
Parsleythe original
Garlicfits about as well

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

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