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Chestnut, Fig and Honey Stuffing

"Figs and honey add just the right amount of sweetness to this delectable baked stuffing...it's deliciously different, yet comforting and familiar too!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Chestnut, Fig and Honey Stuffing

Why it works: Shallot and chestnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 52 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Chestnut, Fig and Honey Stuffing

12 servings
Prep20 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

382Calories
32 gProtein
15 gFat
30 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Dried Fig1 medium (50g)37
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Chestnutnot in our table0
Stuffingnot 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. Shallot + chestnuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  3. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Fig + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together228 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Chestnut + parsleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together313 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the fig

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, shallot, chestnut, celery, honey, chicken, parsley):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Figthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, shallot, chestnut, celery, honey, chicken, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.