Name: Creamy Crockpot Chicken Corn Chowder
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 4 h
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 3-½ cups Chicken Broth; 3 Tablespoons Flour; 2 teaspoons Olive Oil; 1 whole Bell Pepper, Any Colour (I Used Orange), Stem And Seeds Removed, Chopped; ½ cups Finely Chopped Onion; 1 whole Jalapeno Pepper, Seeded And Finely Chopped; 3 cloves Garlic, Minced; 3 cups Cooked And Chopped Chicken (for 3 Cups You'll Need 2-3 Chicken Breasts); 1-½ cup Corn Kernels; ¼ cups Cooked And Crumbled Bacon (for 1/4 Cup You'll Need 3-4 Slices); 4 ounces, weight Cream Cheese, Softened; 1 cup Milk (I Used 2 %); ½ teaspoons Salt; ¼ teaspoons Black Pepper

Why it works: Flour and jalapeno match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 561 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. 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.

Flour + jalapenotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together561 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Orange + clovetop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,987 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Olive + orangetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,456 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Olive + oniontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together29,779 recipes

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

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, flour, olive, pepper, onion, jalapeno, clove):

Avocadofits better
Limefits better
Mangofits better
Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, flour, olive, pepper, onion, jalapeno, clove. 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
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Cream Cheese	1 oz (28g)	99
Corn	1/2 cup kernels (82g)	77
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Seed	not in our table	0

Creamy Crockpot Chicken Corn Chowder