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Chicken Sausage, Apple Butter and Fontina Panini with Caramelized Red Onions

Recipe for a sweet and savory panini combination with smoked chicken-apple sausage, apple butter, Fontina cheese and caramelized red onions.

By paninihappy · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Chicken Sausage, Apple Butter and Fontina Panini with Caramelized Red Onions

Why it works: Onion and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,814 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Chicken Sausage, Apple Butter and Fontina Panini with Caramelized Red Onions

Prep15 min
Cook55 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

602Calories
36 gProtein
35 gFat
37 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
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.

By paninihappy. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Onion + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

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

  2. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  3. Apple + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together294 recipes

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

  4. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,936 recipes

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

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

Swap the apple

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

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Grapefits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Applethe original

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