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Chicken Enchilada Foldovers

"Four easy ingredients, and you've got dinner! Wrap a spicy chicken filling with pizza crust."

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Chicken Enchilada Foldovers

Why it works: Chicken and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,936 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Chicken Enchilada Foldovers

4 foldovers
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

391Calories
45 gProtein
22 gFat
1 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 6 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Enchiladanot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0
Pizzanot 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 + cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,936 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  2. Sauce + cheesetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,987 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Chicken + saucetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,513 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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