Why it works: Wine and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,496 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓
Moulded Chicken Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the wine jelly according to package instructions.
Mould the wine jelly in a suitable dish.
Place the chicken salad in the center of the jelly.
Garnish the dish as desired.
Serve with mayonnaise.
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.
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Wine + chickentop 21% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together3,496 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
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