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Chicken with Red Grapes and Mushrooms

"Chicken breasts in a thyme cream sauce. Serve over bow tie pasta or wide egg noodles. The recipe lists red wine, but you can also use white - either one is fine."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Chicken with Red Grapes and Mushrooms

Why it works: Thyme and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,585 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Chicken with Red Grapes and Mushrooms

4 servings
Prep5 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

549Calories
35 gProtein
35 gFat
22 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Red Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Thyme + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

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

  2. Olive + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,948 recipes

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

  3. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  4. Mushroom + thymetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Olive + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,571 recipes

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

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

Swap the thyme

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, olive, chicken, mushroom, red wine, cream, pepper):

  1. Thymethe original
  2. Garlicfits about as well
  3. Rosemaryfits less well
  4. Parsleyfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, olive, chicken, mushroom, red wine, cream, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.