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Chicken with Mixed Vegetables. Recipe

This is an Asian style chicken breast with mixed vegetables. You can add either brown rice or pasta with garlic on a side.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Broccoli and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 339 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

Chicken with Mixed Vegetables. Recipe

2 portions

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1036Calories
56 gProtein
33 gFat
129 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 13 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chicken100g cooked165
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Beannot in our table0
Saucenot 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 chow. 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. Broccoli + beanstop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together339 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Carrot + beanstop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,443 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Carrot + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Beans + peastop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together949 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, broccoli, mushroom, carrot, beans, peas, sauce):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, broccoli, mushroom, carrot, beans, peas, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.