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Stuffed Chicken Breast

Make a chicken breast into something special, with this dinner party-worthy dish

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Cherry tomato and sugar work together. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and 6 recipes mention both. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

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By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cherry tomato + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Basil + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,292 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Basil + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,868 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,796 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  5. Cherry tomato + basiltop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together11 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, basil, ham, pepper, olive, sugar):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Orangebetter flavor fit
  3. Limebetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, basil, ham, pepper, olive, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).