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Chicken and Kale in Parmesan Cream Sauce

"One of the vendors at the local farmers market was having a special on end-of-harvest kale. I figured it would go well with chicken and stumbled into this. The sauce is pretty heavy, and the kale and vinegar give it a good tangy flavor. My wife is allergic to garlic, otherwise I would have used 1/2 teaspoon of it instead of the salt. Serve over noodles or spaghetti."

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Chicken and Kale in Parmesan Cream Sauce

Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Chicken and Kale in Parmesan Cream Sauce

2 servings
Prep10 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

444Calories
43 gProtein
28 gFat
4 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
Chicken100g cooked165
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Butter + parmesan cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Red wine + parmesan cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together177 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Red wine + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together575 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Kale + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together492 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the kale

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (red wine, vinegar, chicken, cream, butter, pepper, parmesan cheese):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Kalethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against red wine, vinegar, chicken, cream, butter, pepper, parmesan cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.