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Light Chicken Stogranoff

Chicken strips and mushrooms in a yogurt and wine sauce with sun-dried tomatoes, served over noodles.

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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 ↓

Light Chicken Stogranoff

Timeabout 1 hour (tomato soaking)

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, soak tomatoes in hot water until very soft, about 1 hour.

  2. Drain well, cut into strips and set aside.

  3. Dust chicken strips in flour.

  4. Set a large pot of water to boil.

Cook the chicken and vegetables

  1. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a wide non-stick frying pan over medium heat.

  2. Add chicken, about half at a time, and cook, lifting and turning often, until lightly brown.

  3. Remove from pan, and set aside.

  4. Add remaining 1 1/2 teaspoons oil to frying pan.

  5. Add onion and cook 5 minutes.

  6. If onions start to stick, add a little water to the pan.

  7. Add the mushrooms, garlic, thyme and cayenne pepper.

  8. Cook until the mushrooms have softened.

Make the sauce

  1. Meanwhile, stir the dissolved cornstarch into the yogurt, set aside.

  2. Add the wine and sherry to the mushrooms and cook until the liquid has almost evaporated.

  3. Stir in the broth.

  4. Turn the heat to medium-low and take the pan off the heat.

  5. Stir some of the hot vegetables into the yogurt, then stir the yogurt into the pan.

  6. Add the dried tomatoes, salt and lots of pepper.

  7. Place on the heat and stir several minutes until the sauce is lightly thickened.

  8. Stir in the chicken and heat through.

Serve

  1. Place noodles in the boiling water and cook according to package directions, then drain.

  2. Spoon the stroganoff on top and garnish with a little chopped parsley if desired.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

953Calories
64 gProtein
20 gFat
122 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 14 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
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. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

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

  3. Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Tomato + garlictop 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; flour dusting helps it brown and lightly coats the sauce.
Lowfat yogurt
Makes the sauce creamy and adds a mild tang.
Cornstarch
Thickens the sauce so it clings to the noodles and chicken.
Sun-dried tomatoes
Add concentrated, chewy tomato flavor and a deeper savory note.
Dry white wine
Adds acidity and aroma as it reduces into the sauce.
Onion
Becomes sweet and mellow as it cooks, forming the base flavor.

The step that matters

Stirring the yogurt into the sauce. Yogurt can curdle and turn grainy when it meets high heat. Cornstarch helps stabilize it, and taking the pan off the heat and adding some hot liquid first to warm the yogurt gently keeps the sauce smooth.

Swap the clove

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, chicken, flour, olive, onion, garlic, thyme. 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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