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Goat Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breasts with Rustic Basil Pesto

These incredibly simple stuffed chicken breasts with rustic basil pesto are packed with flavor and look deceptively fancy! No food processor or blender necessary.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and goat cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 84 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl butyrate, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep20 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (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. Chicken + goat cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together84 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  2. Basil + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,820 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

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

  4. Basil + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,292 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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 (chicken, goat cheese, garlic, basil, pepper, lemon, olive):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  3. Oreganobetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

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