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Chicken Bog

A stew of chicken, onion, smoked sausage, black pepper, and rice simmered in broth.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,769 recipes. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

Chicken Bog

Serves 8

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil chicken and onions in 4 cups of water until tender.

  2. If desired, debone chicken.

  3. Slice sausage into ½-inch pieces.

Cook

  1. Add sausage, pepper and rice to chicken.

  2. Simmer until all broth is absorbed and rice is cooked.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

722Calories
49 gProtein
31 gFat
58 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Smoked Sausage100g cooked301
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6

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

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

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

Explore the science

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. Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

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

  2. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  3. Onion + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Pepper + ricetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken pieces
Provides the main meat, which becomes tender as it simmers and flavors the broth.
Long-grain rice
Absorbs the cooking broth as it simmers, becoming the starchy base of the dish.
Smoked sausage
Adds smoky flavor and rendered fat to the pot as it cooks.
Chopped onion
Softens and sweetens as it boils, adding aroma to the broth.

The step that matters

Simmer until the broth is absorbed. Rice cooks by absorbing liquid, so the pot must hold enough broth until the grains are tender. Too little liquid or too much heat can leave the rice hard or scorched on the bottom, while stopping early leaves the rice undercooked.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, rice. 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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