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Fried Chicken with Tomato Mayonnaise

Fried chicken served with a tomato mayonnaise sauce made from tomatoes, mayonnaise, capers, parsley, pickles, and olives.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Capers and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,550 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Fried Chicken with Tomato Mayonnaise

Ingredients

Directions

Fry the chicken

  1. Sprinkle the chicken pieces with salt and pepper, then dredge in flour.

  2. Sauté the chicken in the pork fat over medium heat until tender and well browned, turning often.

  3. Remove the chicken to a hot serving dish and garnish with cress.

Make the tomato mayonnaise

  1. Bring the tomatoes to a boil, then simmer gently until reduced to 2 tablespoons.

  2. Rub the reduced tomatoes through a sieve and chill.

  3. Mix the chilled tomatoes with mayonnaise, capers, parsley, pickles, and olives.

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. Capers + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,550 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Chicken + porktop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Capers + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Chickens
Provide the main meat, which becomes tender and browned when sautéed.
Fat salt pork
Supplies fat for sautéing, which browns the chicken and adds savory flavor.
Flour
Forms a light coating on the chicken that helps it brown in the fat.
Tomatoes
Reduced and sieved, they add concentrated tomato flavor and acidity to the sauce.
Mayonnaise
Provides the creamy, fatty base of the sauce, adding richness and smooth texture.

The step that matters

Sautéing the chicken over medium heat. Medium heat lets the chicken cook through to tender while browning gradually. Too high a heat scorches the flour coating before the meat is cooked inside, and too low a heat leaves the coating pale and greasy.

Swap the capers

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pork, pepper, flour, parsley, olive, tomato):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Basilfits better
  4. Capersthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pork, pepper, flour, parsley, olive, tomato. 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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