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Chicken Liver En Brochette

Skewered chicken livers and bacon, broiled and brushed with butter, pepper, salt, and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Chicken Liver En Brochette

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the chicken livers in cold water and dry them.

  2. Cut the livers in half and slice the bacon to the same size.

  3. Skewer the livers and bacon alternately on a skewer.

Cook and finish

  1. Broil the skewers until cooked through.

  2. Brush the cooked skewers with a mixture of melted butter, pepper, coarse sea salt, and lemon juice.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

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

  3. Chicken + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,092 recipes

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

  4. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken livers
Provide the main meaty filling of each skewer, cooking to a tender texture when done through.
Bacon
Adds fat and salty, smoky flavour as it renders while the skewers broil.
Melted butter
Adds richness and helps carry the seasoning over the cooked skewers.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich flavour of the livers and bacon.

The step that matters

Broil until cooked through. Chicken livers turn from tender to grainy and dry if overcooked, and underdone livers are unsafe to eat. Watch closely and cook until the livers are no longer pink inside.

“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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