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Chicken-Cherry Pie

"Sounds strange, but makes a wonderful casserole style pie."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Phyllo dough and sauce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 6 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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. Phyllo dough + saucetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Garlic + chickentop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

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

  5. Onion + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the capers

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (phyllo dough, butter, olive, onion, garlic, chicken, ginger):

  1. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  4. Capersthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against phyllo dough, butter, olive, onion, garlic, chicken, ginger. 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).