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Chicken and Squash Blossom Rolls

Mexico’s native squash provides cooks with an almost year-round supply of the vivid golden yellow flowers. In this dish the delicate flowers are added to a robust combination of corn and roasted poblano chilies, all enrobed in a thin slice of chicken.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 17,808 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

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By williamssonoma. 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 + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

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

  2. Butter + cream cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Chicken + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,666 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Pepper + corntop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Safflower + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the epazote

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

  1. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  2. Celerybetter flavor fit
  3. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  4. Epazotethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, chicken, pepper, corn, safflower, onion, cream cheese. 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).