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Oriental Chicken Broccoli

"A saucepan dish combining cream, soup and chicken with lots of Oriental veggies like bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, baby corn, mushrooms and broccoli. Serve over chow mein noodles or rice, if desired."

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Why it works: Bamboo shoots and broccoli share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 21 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Bring a pan of water to a boil, add the frozen broccoli, and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Drain well.

  2. Drain the mushrooms, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots and baby corn. Slice the water chestnuts.

  3. In a large saucepan over medium heat, whisk the condensed cream of mushroom soup and heavy cream until smooth and warm, about 3 minutes.

  4. Stir in the mushrooms, cubed cooked chicken, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots and baby corn.

  5. Simmer gently over medium-low heat, stirring often, for 10 minutes, until the chicken reaches 165°F (74°C) and everything is hot.

  6. Stir in the drained broccoli and heat for 2 minutes more. Serve hot.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Bamboo shoots + broccolitop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Mushroom + chickentop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,171 recipes

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

  4. Water chestnut + broccolitop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Chicken + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,666 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

Flavor stand-ins for the water chestnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, mushroom, chicken, meat, bamboo shoots, corn, broccoli):

  1. Coconutabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Water chestnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, mushroom, chicken, meat, bamboo shoots, corn, broccoli. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).