Name: Fiery Stewing Chicken for Salads
Ingredients: 6 pound ready to cook stewing chicken, cut up; 2 sprigs parsley; 4 cut up celery branches with leaves; 1 carrot pared and sliced; 1 small white onion cut up; 2 teaspoons salt; ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Why it works: Parsley and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Fiery Stewing Chicken for Salads

Ingredients

6 pound ready to cook stewing chicken, cut up
2 sprigs parsley
4 cut up celery branches with leaves
1 carrot pared and sliced
1 small white onion cut up
2 teaspoons salt
¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Directions

Place chicken in Dutch oven with water to cover.
Add parsley, celery, carrot, onion, salt and pepper, then cover and bring to boiling.
Reduce heat, then cook over low heat until tender.
Remove meat from bones and it is ready for use in salads or casseroles.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

247Calories

33 gProtein

4 gFat

19 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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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.

Parsley + carrottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together8,053 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together10,173 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Parsley + celerytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together6,810 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Stewing chicken: Provides the meat, which becomes tender through long, gentle simmering.
Celery: Adds aromatic flavour to the cooking liquid as it simmers with the chicken.
Carrot: Adds gentle sweetness and aroma to the cooking liquid.
Onion: Adds savoury aroma and depth to the cooking liquid.

The step that matters

Cook over low heat until tender. Tough stewing meat needs slow, gentle simmering so its connective tissue breaks down into tender meat. Boiling hard can toughen the proteins and make the meat stringy and dry.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, parsley, celery, carrot, pepper):

Capsicumfits better
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Potatofits better
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, parsley, celery, carrot, pepper. 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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Fiery Stewing Chicken for Salads