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Best Chicken Quiche

"An easy quiche that uses up the chicken left over from making soup stock! Note: The regular dry onion soup mix can be too strong; I use Lipton® Golden Onion Soup Mix."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Best Chicken Quiche

Why it works: Gruyere cheese and parmesan cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 152 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Best Chicken Quiche

6 servings
Prep25 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

659Calories
64 gProtein
34 gFat
24 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Gruyere Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Pie Crustnot in our table0
Soupnot 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 allrecipes. 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. Gruyere cheese + parmesan cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together152 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  3. Gruyere cheese + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Chicken + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,389 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  5. Chicken + parmesan cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,846 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, gruyere cheese, parmesan cheese, egg, milk):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, gruyere cheese, parmesan cheese, egg, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.