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Provencal Chicken Stew with Butternut Squash & Chickpeas

By biggirlssmallkitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Chickpea and butternut squash share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 56 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Provencal Chicken Stew with Butternut Squash & Chickpeas

**Recipe**

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

398Calories
41 gProtein
6 gFat
41 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Chickpea1/2 cup canned (120g) drained134
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Seednot 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 biggirlssmallkitchen. 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. Chickpea + butternut squashtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Thyme + rosemarytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,340 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Chickpea + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together813 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chickpea, chicken, onion, garlic, butternut squash, thyme, rosemary):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Oreganofits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chickpea, chicken, onion, garlic, butternut squash, thyme, rosemary. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.