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Slow Cooker Creamy Chipotle Chicken Tortellini

By pickypalate · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Slow Cooker Creamy Chipotle Chicken Tortellini

Why it works: Broccoli and cumin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 304 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Slow Cooker Creamy Chipotle Chicken Tortellini

8-10 Servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

341Calories
37 gProtein
15 gFat
16 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saucenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By pickypalate. 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. Broccoli + cumintop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together304 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Cumin + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,382 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Broccoli + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Chicken + cumintop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,937 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + broccolitop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,237 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

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

Swap the cumin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, cream cheese, broccoli, sauce, pepper):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Dillfits better
  4. Cuminthe original

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