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Chicken Broccoli Casserole with French Fried Onions

Mmm. This casserole has brown rice and broccoli, a creamy sauce and savory chicken, topped with crispy French fried onions. It’s a crispy delicious masterpiece and it tastes a lot like fried chicken!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Chicken Broccoli Casserole with French Fried Onions

Why it works: Rice and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,769 recipes. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

Chicken Broccoli Casserole with French Fried Onions

Serves 6
Prep20 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

795Calories
49 gProtein
32 gFat
80 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Soupnot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Rice + chickentop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  2. Broccoli + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Broccoli + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,460 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Rice + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,994 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the broccoli

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, chicken, olive, cream, milk, pepper, onion):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Broccolithe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, chicken, olive, cream, milk, pepper, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.