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Chicken Tetrazzini with a Twist

"Chunk chicken, corkscrew pasta, zucchini, carrot and onion are melded together with a creamy mushroom sauce and Parmesan cheese. Stirred together in one pot, this is an easy and satisfying dish."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Chicken Tetrazzini with a Twist

Why it works: Pasta and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,227 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Chicken Tetrazzini with a Twist

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook25 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. Pasta + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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

  3. Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together21,601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Olive + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,571 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Pasta + carrottop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together435 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pasta, olive, onion, cream, mushroom, milk, parmesan cheese):

  1. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pasta, olive, onion, cream, mushroom, milk, 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).