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Cannelon a LA Reine

A pastry roll filled with chicken, truffles, mushrooms, and reduced Allemande sauce, fried and served with fried parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Cannelon a LA Reine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Chop the chicken fillets, truffles, and mushrooms.

  2. Mix them with the reduced Allemande sauce.

Assemble

  1. Roll out the puff pastry to 3 mm thick.

  2. Lightly moisten the pastry.

  3. Place the filling along the pastry, about 2 inches wide and 5 inches long.

  4. Wrap the filling tightly in the pastry to form a small roll, sealing the edges well.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in moderate oil until golden.

  2. Serve with fried parsley.

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.

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

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

  2. Truffle + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

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

  3. Mushroom + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,132 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Chicken + truffletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together756 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + parsleytop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,314 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken fillets
Provides the main cooked protein that forms the bulk of the filling.
Reduced allemande sauce
Binds the chopped filling together and adds moisture and richness.
Puff pastry
Forms a flaky outer wrapper that crisps and browns when fried.
Truffles
Adds a concentrated earthy aroma to the filling.
Mushrooms
Adds savoury depth and moisture to the filling.

The step that matters

Wrap the filling tightly and seal the edges. Loose wrapping or unsealed edges let filling leak into the oil during frying, which can make the pastry greasy and the roll fall apart.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, truffle, mushroom, sauce):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, truffle, mushroom, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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