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Goat Cheese-Stuffed Pomegranate Chicken with Balsamic Reduction

A quick, healthy and elegant chicken dish that is loaded with antioxidants, creamy goat cheese and crunchy pomegranate arils.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Goat cheese and pomegranate work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and 12 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Goat cheese + pomegranatetop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Garlic + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Goat cheese + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together557 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  5. Chicken + olivetop 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 shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, goat cheese, pepper, garlic, olive, vinegar, pomegranate):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Onionbetter flavor fit
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, goat cheese, pepper, garlic, olive, vinegar, pomegranate. 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).