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Campbell's® Lemon Broccoli Chicken

"In just 20 minutes, you can serve a rich, lemon-y chicken and rice main dish."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Campbell's® Lemon Broccoli Chicken

Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Campbell's® Lemon Broccoli Chicken

4 servings
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

763Calories
48 gProtein
32 gFat
74 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
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.

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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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + ricetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Lemon + ricetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, cream, milk, pepper, rice):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Mangofits about as well
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Cherryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, cream, milk, pepper, rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.