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Chicken Quesadillas with Pesto, Pancetta and Pine Nuts

Quick and easy quesadillas that are full of flavor.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and pine work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 234 recipes mention both. Both carry anethole, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By tastykitchen. 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 + pinetop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together234 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

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

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

  3. Chicken + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  4. Olive + pinetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Olive + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together26,431 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pepper, butter, olive, pine, nuts, flour):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, butter, olive, pine, nuts, flour. 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).