Chicken and Rice Casserole with Onions

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. Mushroom + chickentop 4% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together4,172 recipes

   Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

3. Rice + chickentop 5% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together4,769 recipes

   Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

4. Mushroom + garlictop 6% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together4,700 recipes

   Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

5. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together18,518 recipes

   Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Uncooked rice

Absorbs liquid from the soup and milk as it bakes, cooking into the body of the casserole.

Condensed cream of mushroom soup

Provides the creamy sauce that moistens the rice and chicken as they cook.

Boneless, skinless chicken breasts

Supply the main protein, which cooks through in the covered baking dish.

French fried onions

Add a crisp, browned topping and toasted onion flavour after the foil comes off.

Dry onion soup mix

Adds concentrated onion flavour and salt to the sauce and rice.

The step that matters

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, mushroom, garlic, milk, onion, rice, chicken):

1. Thymefits about as well
2. Celerythe original
3. Cuminfits about as well
4. Turmericfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, mushroom, garlic, milk, onion, rice, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.