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Cornish Game Hens with Rice Stuffing

"My mother used to make this for Easter dinner. The rice stuffing is a perfect partner for the hens. Packaged wild rice mix can be used as well."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Cornish Game Hens with Rice Stuffing

Why it works: Almond and wild rice share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 32 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Cornish Game Hens with Rice Stuffing

4 servings
Prep20 min
Cook1 hr 50 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

484Calories
39 gProtein
16 gFat
45 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Wild Rice1 cup cooked (164g)166
Chicken100g cooked165
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

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. Almond + wild ricetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Onion + wild ricetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Onion + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

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

  4. Wild rice + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together175 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  5. Butter + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, almond, wild rice, chicken):

  1. Welsh onionfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, almond, wild rice, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.