Name: Nut Croquettes
Ingredients: 1 cup chopped chicken or veal; ½ cup chopped English walnuts or pecans; sauce (amount not specified)

Why it works: Chicken and walnut work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 469 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Nut Croquettes

Ingredients

1 cup chopped chicken or veal
½ cup chopped English walnuts or pecans
sauce (amount not specified)

Directions

In a bowl, combine the chopped chicken or veal with the chopped nuts.
Mix in the sauce until well combined.

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.

Chicken + walnuttop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together469 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
Chicken + saucetop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,513 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Walnut + saucetop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together525 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).