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Chicken and Wild Rice Casserole

"A creamy chicken, wild rice, and mushroom casserole. This elegant, tasty recipe may be made in advance and baked right before company arrives! It's a real family favorite! Serve with French-style green beans or broccoli, fruit salad and French bread. That's all you need."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Chicken and Wild Rice Casserole

Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Chicken and Wild Rice Casserole

10 servings
Prep30 min
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

596Calories
61 gProtein
11 gFat
59 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 13 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Wild Rice1 cup cooked (164g)166
Chicken100g cooked165
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. White wine + mushroomtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Celery + wild ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Onion + wild ricetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, white wine, onion, wild rice, mushroom, cream):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, white wine, onion, wild rice, mushroom, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.