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Stuffed Chicken Breasts with Cornbread Dressing

"This is a quick and easy meal if you have leftover cornbread on hand, or use a packaged mix. The chicken livers are optional, but do give this an authentic Southern flair!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and cornbread work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 86 recipes mention both. Both carry acetaldehyde, which smells pungent, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings

Ingredients

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

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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 + cornbreadtop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together86 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Pepper + sagetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Chicken + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  5. Chicken + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pepper, butter, onion, liver, garlic, cornbread):

  1. Thymeabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Parsleyabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Celeryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, butter, onion, liver, garlic, cornbread. 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).