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Chicken and Corn Empanadas

this is a quick and easy recipie that is great to do with the kids or with adults serve with mash and veg. these can also be made for picnics in smaller versions and taste great using short crust pastry too

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Coriander and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,635 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Chicken and Corn Empanadas

Serves 4

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

835Calories
55 gProtein
12 gFat
126 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 13 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chicken100g cooked165
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Olive1 large (4g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pimentonot in our table0
Coriandernot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0
Pastrynot 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.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Coriander + cinnamontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,635 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Coriander + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,949 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Olive + coriandertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,615 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Corn + coriandertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,081 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the cinnamon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, corn, onion, olive, coriander, sauce, pepper):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Basilfits better
  4. Cinnamonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, corn, onion, olive, coriander, sauce, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.