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Chelan Chicken

"We often spend weekends at our family vacation home on Lake Chelan. Tired of the weekend's restaurant fare, I created this recipe using ingredients I had on hand in the kitchen, including a wonderful Chardonnay from the nearby Big Pine Winery. This is a family-pleasing and comforting recipe of breaded and lightly fried chicken breasts baked in a creamy mushroom wine sauce."

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Chelan Chicken

Why it works: Cheddar cheese and parmesan cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 592 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Chelan Chicken

5 servings
Prep15 min
Cook55 min

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cheddar cheese + parmesan cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together592 recipes

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

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Mushroom + parmesan cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,199 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  4. Mushroom + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, mushroom, cheddar cheese, garlic, pepper, bread, parmesan cheese):

  1. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Potatoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, mushroom, cheddar cheese, garlic, pepper, bread, parmesan cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).