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Garden Chicken Supreme

A stew of chicken breasts with herbs, garlic, onions, courgettes, peppers, and tomatoes.

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Why it works: Garlic and onion 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 ↓

Garden Chicken Supreme

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Rub the chicken breasts with the herbs.

  2. Peel and finely chop the garlic and onions.

  3. Chop the courgettes; cut the peppers in half, remove seeds and white pith, and cut the peppers into wide strips.

Cook the chicken and vegetables

  1. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a large pan and fry the chicken for 8 minutes.

  2. Turn the chicken and fry for another 5 minutes.

  3. Remove the chicken from the pan and keep warm.

  4. Add the remaining oil, onions, garlic, peppers, and courgette to the pan.

  5. Cook until the vegetables soften.

  6. Add the tomatoes with their juice and season.

  7. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes.

Finish and serve

  1. Stir in the freshly chopped parsley and place the chicken on top.

  2. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes, garnish with basil, and serve.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

401Calories
35 gProtein
18 gFat
25 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken breasts
Provides the main protein, which firms and turns opaque as it cooks through.
Onions
Soften and turn sweet as they cook, forming the base flavour of the stew.
Olive oil
Carries heat evenly for frying and adds richness to the vegetables.
Canned chopped tomatoes
Add acidity and liquid that simmers the vegetables into a saucy stew.
Peppers
Soften during simmering, adding sweetness and body to the stew.
Courgettes
Soften during cooking and release moisture that helps form the sauce.

The step that matters

Frying the chicken before simmering. Searing the chicken builds browned flavour on the surface and seals in juices. Cooking it through in the pan, then finishing gently in the stew, keeps the meat tender rather than dry.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, garlic, onion, pepper, olive, tomato, parsley):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Basilfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, garlic, onion, pepper, olive, tomato, parsley. 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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