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Chicken with Creamy Lemon Sauce and Rice

"This easy weeknight dinner with chicken and broccoli is served over hot cooked rice with a creamy lemon sauce."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Chicken with Creamy Lemon Sauce and Rice

Why it works: Broccoli and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,072 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Chicken with Creamy Lemon Sauce and Rice

4 servings
Prep30 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

809Calories
49 gProtein
36 gFat
74 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Garlic1 clove (3g)4

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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. Broccoli + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,072 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Broccoli + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together809 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Chicken + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,850 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  5. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, broccoli, garlic, cream cheese, milk, lemon, rice):

  1. Corianderfits better
  2. Dillfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, broccoli, garlic, cream cheese, milk, lemon, rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.