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Chicken Phyllo Wraps

A savory dish of ground chicken, rice, vegetables, and cheese wrapped in phyllo dough and baked.

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Why it works: Spinach and pine match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 181 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Chicken Phyllo Wraps

Oven400°F
Time15 to 20 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Coat large skillet with cooking spray.

  2. Place over medium-high heat until hot.

  3. Add chicken, mushrooms, and onion.

  4. Cook 2 to 4 minutes until chicken is no longer pink and vegetables are tender.

  5. Reduce heat to medium.

  6. Add rice, ricotta cheese, spinach, olives, nuts, garlic, oregano and lemon pepper.

  7. Cook and stir 3 to 4 minutes until well blended and thoroughly heated.

Fold and bake

  1. Working with 1 phyllo sheet at a time, spray 1 sheet with cooking spray. Fold sheet in half lengthwise.

  2. Place 3/4 to 1 cup rice mixture on one end of phyllo strip. Fold left bottom corner over mixture, forming a triangle.

  3. Continue folding back and forth into triangle at end of strip.

  4. Repeat with remaining phyllo sheets and rice mixture.

  5. Place triangles, seam side down, on baking sheets coated with cooking spray. Coat tops of each triangle with cooking spray.

  6. Bake at 400 degrees 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown.

  7. Serve immediately.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

953Calories
56 gProtein
48 gFat
76 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 15 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Ricotta Cheese1/2 cup (124g) part-skim174
Chicken100g cooked165
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Oregano1 tsp dried (1.8g)5
Olive1 large (4g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Phyllo Doughnot 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. Spinach + pinetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together181 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

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

  3. Olive + pinetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

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

  5. Spinach + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,971 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Ground chicken
Provides the main protein and body of the savory filling.
Phyllo dough sheets
Form the thin, crisp wrapper that browns in the oven.
Ricotta cheese
Adds creaminess and moisture that keeps the filling soft.
Spinach
Adds moisture and earthy bulk to the filling.
Cooked rice
Adds bulk and soaks up moisture so the filling holds its shape.
Onion
Adds savory sweetness and aroma as it softens.

The step that matters

Drain the spinach well. Excess water from wet spinach turns the filling soggy and can make the phyllo steam instead of crisp when baked.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, mushroom, rice, ricotta cheese, spinach, olive, pine):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Eggplantfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, mushroom, rice, ricotta cheese, spinach, olive, pine. 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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