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Ground Chicken with Walnuts

A chicken stew with walnuts, bread, and spices, served with walnut oil.

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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Ground Chicken with Walnuts

Time1 hour

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the chicken

  1. Place chicken, potato, onion, and carrot in a large saucepan over medium heat.

  2. Pour in water and bring to a boil.

  3. Skim foam from surface and season with 1 ½ teaspoons salt.

  4. Reduce heat and simmer for 1 hour, or until chicken and vegetables are tender.

  5. Strain and reserve broth.

  6. Discard vegetables.

  7. Allow chicken to cool, then remove skin and bones, and shred meat into very small pieces.

Make the walnut sauce

  1. Soften the bread in some of the chicken broth, then squeeze out.

  2. In a large bowl, combine bread, ground walnuts, garlic, red pepper, and 1 teaspoon salt.

  3. Using your hands, mix well like you're mixing meatballs.

  4. Place mixture in cheesecloth, and squeeze oil that the ground walnuts produce into a small bowl; set aside.

  5. Place walnut mixture into large bowl.

  6. Slowly blend in 1 cup of reserved chicken broth until consistency is like thick soup.

Assemble and serve

  1. Place shredded chicken in a porcelain or glass serving dish.

  2. Stir in 2 to 3 tablespoons of walnut mixture.

  3. Cover chicken with remaining walnut mixture so the chicken is not visible.

  4. Smooth surface with the back of a spoon.

  5. Pour reserved walnut oil over the top.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

888Calories
51 gProtein
8 gFat
151 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
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Potato + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,517 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Potato + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Carrot + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Provides the cooked meat that is shredded and covered by the walnut sauce.
Walnuts
Ground into the sauce, giving it body, richness and a nutty flavor.
French bread
Soaked in broth and mixed in, helping thicken the walnut sauce.
Garlic
Adds pungent aroma and savory flavor to the walnut sauce.
Red pepper
Adds heat and warm spice to the walnut sauce.

The step that matters

Blending the broth into the walnut mixture. Adding broth slowly lets the bread and ground walnuts absorb liquid evenly, so the sauce reaches a smooth, thick soup-like consistency without lumps or a runny texture.

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, potato, onion, carrot, bread, clove, garlic):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, potato, onion, carrot, bread, clove, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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