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Easy Chicken Tortellini Alfredo

"A friend of mine got this recipe while traveling in Italy. Chicken, mushrooms, and tortellini in rich cream sauce. Delicious! Serve sprinkled with parsley and cheese."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Easy Chicken Tortellini Alfredo

Why it works: Cheese and parmesan cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,041 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Easy Chicken Tortellini Alfredo

6 servings
Prep15 min
Cook25 min

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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. Cheese + parmesan cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,041 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  3. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,308 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + parmesan cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,199 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Mushroom + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, chicken, butter, mushroom, garlic, cream, parmesan cheese):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Pepperabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Basilabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, chicken, butter, mushroom, garlic, cream, parmesan 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).