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Chicken & Sweetcorn Pasta Bake

This pasta bake is quick and easy to make. If you take out the pasta sauce (and replace it with mayonaise if you want) it can be eaten cold!

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and sweetcorn work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 111 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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. Chicken + sweetcorntop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together111 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Chicken + cheddar cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,312 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Pasta + saucetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together669 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Pasta + chickentop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,024 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Sweetcorn + cheddar cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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