Name: Timbale De Nouilles Au Salpicon
Ingredients: noodles; cooked chicken breast; truffles; cooked tongue; reduced espagnole sauce; Madeira wine

Why it works: Chicken and truffle work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 756 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Timbale De Nouilles Au Salpicon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the timbale as described in the previous recipe for ham noodles.
Make a salpicon by combining cooked chicken, truffles, and tongue.
Moisten the salpicon with reduced espagnole sauce and Madeira wine.
Mix the salpicon with the prepared noodles.
Fill the timbale with the mixture and serve.

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 + truffletop 13% of all pairs

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Cooked together756 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Truffle + madeira winetop 13% of all pairs

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Cooked together195 recipes
Sauce + madeira winetop 19% of all pairs

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Cooked together230 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Truffle + saucetop 22% of all pairs

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Cooked together1,490 recipes
Chicken + saucetop 23% of all pairs

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Cooked together4,513 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).