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Chicken Breast with Mushrooms and Cheddar

Chicken breast with mushrooms and cheddar, marinated in honey mustard and baked in the oven.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Chicken Breast with Mushrooms and Cheddar

Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,172 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Chicken Breast with Mushrooms and Cheddar

Serves 2
Prep35 min
Cook19 min

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

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

  2. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Mustard + clovetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,829 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  4. Mustard + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Mushroom + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,663 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mustard, sauce, honey, apple cider vinegar, pepper, chicken, mushroom):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  3. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mustard, sauce, honey, apple cider vinegar, pepper, chicken, mushroom. 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).