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Cheater Pot Pie

"My husband and I fondly refer to this as 'Cheater Pot Pie.' This is similar to a standard pot pie, but prepares much quicker. Use whole or two percent milk."

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Why it works: Butter and milk match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 81,222 recipes mention both. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

The recipe

1 - 9 inch pie
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C) and set a rack in the middle.

  2. Melt the 3 tablespoons of butter in a small dish or microwave and set aside.

  3. In a large saucepan, combine the frozen mixed vegetables, drained chicken chunks, cream of chicken soup, and milk. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

  4. Stir over medium heat for about 5 minutes, until the vegetables are tender and the filling is hot and bubbling throughout.

  5. Pour the filling into a 9-inch pie dish and spread it evenly.

  6. Separate the refrigerated layered biscuits and cut each one in half or into quarters. Arrange them over the hot filling, leaving some gaps so the filling shows.

  7. Brush the biscuit tops with the melted butter.

  8. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes, until the biscuits are golden brown and the filling is bubbling at the edges. Let stand 5 minutes before serving.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Chicken + milktop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,387 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  4. Butter + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13,869 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Pepper + biscuittop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together841 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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