Name: Chicken Pot Pie Turnovers
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 40 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 2 Tablespoons Butter; ½ whole Onion, Chopped; 1 whole Carrot, Chopped; 1 stalk Celery, Chopped; 2 cloves Kosher Salt And Freshly Ground Pepper; 2 teaspoons Garlic, Minced; 1 Tablespoon Dried Thyme; ½ cups Flour; 1 cup White Wine; 1 teaspoon Chicken Stock; 2 Tablespoons Dijon Mustard; ½ cups Parmesan Cheese; 2 cups Frozen Peas; 2 whole Cubed Or Shredded Cooked Chicken

Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

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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.

Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together10,173 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together4,108 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Carrot + thymetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together4,563 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Celery + thymetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,193 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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 (butter, onion, carrot, celery, pepper, garlic, thyme):

Parsleyfits better
Marjoramfits better
Winter savoryfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, onion, carrot, celery, pepper, garlic, thyme. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Parmesan Cheese	1 oz (28g)	110
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Pea	1/2 cup (72g)	62
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Mustard	1 tsp (5g) yellow	3
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Chicken Pot Pie Turnovers