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Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos

"Slow cooked chicken tacos are easy to make and easy to love."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos

Why it works: Beans and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,713 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos

6 tacos
Prep30 min
Cook4 hr 30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

694Calories
49 gProtein
16 gFat
92 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Black Bean1/2 cup canned (120g) drained114
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Salt1 tsp (6g)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.

  1. Beans + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,713 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Beans + corntop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,211 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Rice + beanstop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,017 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  5. Corn + limetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together773 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, rice, beans, corn, cream cheese, tomato):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Cherryfits about as well
  4. Limethe original

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