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Wild Rice Spaghetti Chicken

"Chicken AND rice AND spaghetti, your palette overfloweth! This is a quick delicious recipe that the whole family likes. I always use fresh ingredients which will always give you the best flavor you can get. Serve with a nice green salad, warm French bread and butter. Enjoy."

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Wild Rice Spaghetti Chicken

Why it works: Olive and wild rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 143 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Wild Rice Spaghetti Chicken

4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

525Calories
40 gProtein
18 gFat
51 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Wild Rice1 cup cooked (164g)166
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31

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. Olive + wild ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together143 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Wild rice + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Olive + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + wild ricetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together175 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, olive, wild rice, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Welsh onionfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, olive, wild rice, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.