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Chicken Lasagna Rolls with Chive Cream Sauce

"Individual lasagna rolls make this dish both fun and easy to eat. Just add crusty Italian bread or bread sticks and you have a meal!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Chicken Lasagna Rolls with Chive Cream Sauce

Why it works: Cream cheese and parmesan cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 311 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Chicken Lasagna Rolls with Chive Cream Sauce

6 servings
Prep49 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

924Calories
70 gProtein
40 gFat
72 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Chicken100g cooked165
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Lasagnanot in our table0
Saucenot 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 cheese + parmesan cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together311 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Chive + broccolitop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together120 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Parmesan cheese + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,041 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Cream cheese + cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together473 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Broccoli + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

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

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

Swap the broccoli

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, milk, parmesan cheese, chive, chicken, pepper, cheese):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Broccolithe original

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