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Secretly Simple Cheddar Chicken

Juicy chicken breasts with a crunchy topping, drizzled with delicious cheese sauce. Easy with very few ingredients but so delicious!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Secretly Simple Cheddar Chicken

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 ↓

Secretly Simple Cheddar Chicken

Serves 2
Prep10 min
Cook45 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. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,814 recipes

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

  3. Mushroom + cheddar cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together705 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,626 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Cheddar cheese + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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 (chicken, pepper, cream, mushroom, cheddar cheese, milk):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, cream, mushroom, cheddar cheese, milk. 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).