Name: Meat Croquettes—chicken Croquettes
Ingredients: cooked turkey, minced; cooked chicken, minced; boiled rice; hard boiled eggs, for garnish

Why it works: Chicken and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,769 recipes. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

Meat Croquettes—chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

cooked turkey, minced
cooked chicken, minced
boiled rice
hard boiled eggs, for garnish

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Stew the minced turkey until cooked through.
Form the stewed turkey into croquettes.
Place boiled rice around the dish.
Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven until browned.
Garnish with sliced hard boiled eggs before serving.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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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.

Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,769 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).
Turkey + chickentop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together688 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).
Turkey + ricetop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together135 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Rice + eggtop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,350 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).
Chicken + eggtop 30% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,991 recipes

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