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Savory Chicken and Stuffing Bake

"Stuffing, chicken breasts, and cream of chicken soup bake together in this satisfying family meal."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and milk match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,387 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep10 min
Cook30 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. Heat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Spread half of the stuffing cubes evenly in the bottom of a 9x13 inch baking dish.

  3. Arrange the chicken breasts over the stuffing in a single layer and sprinkle them with paprika.

  4. In a bowl, stir the condensed cream of chicken soup with the milk until smooth, then pour it over the chicken.

  5. Scatter the remaining stuffing cubes over the top.

  6. Bake for about 30 minutes, until the chicken reaches 165°F (74°C) in the thickest part and the stuffing is golden.

  7. Sprinkle with the chopped parsley and 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. Chicken + milktop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,387 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  2. Cream + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together29,395 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Chicken + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,314 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Chicken + creamtop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together6,241 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  5. Milk + parsleytop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together7,011 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

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

  1. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  2. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  3. Celerybetter flavor fit
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, cream, milk. 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).