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Lighter Creamed Chicken & Cornbread

Lighter Creamed Chicken & Cornbread is a recipe makeover from a woman who I work with at the art center. The original recipe called for 8 tablespoons of butter and heavy cream but we fixed that! With this recipe I got it down to 2 tablespoons of butter, 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil and healthy alternatives to the heavy cream like Greek yogurt and buttermilk.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 25 ingredients
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Why it works: Cornbread and chicken work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 86 recipes mention both. Both carry acetaldehyde, which smells pungent, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8
Prep20 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (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. Cornbread + chickentop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together86 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

  2. Honey + yogurttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together659 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Olive + yogurttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

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

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

  5. Olive + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

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

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 (cornbread, olive, honey, buttermilk, egg, chicken, yogurt):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against cornbread, olive, honey, buttermilk, egg, chicken, yogurt. 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).