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Chicken and Lobster Salad

A salad of cooked chicken, lobster, peas, mayonnaise, oil, lemon juice, parsley, olives, garnished with gherkins and tiny onions.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Chicken and Lobster Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken

  1. Remove the meat from the chicken bones and cut it into small pieces.

  2. Sprinkle the chicken with lemon juice and let it sit for 30 minutes.

Assemble the salad

  1. Mix the chicken with the peas.

  2. Stir the chopped parsley and olives into the mayonnaise and combine with the chicken and peas.

  3. Garnish with gherkins and tiny onions.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,649 recipes

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

  3. Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

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

  4. Olive + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

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

  5. Peas + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,066 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-hex-3-en-1-ol (freshly cut grass green and herbaceous notes).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Forms the bulk of the salad, providing protein and a tender, meaty texture.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds moisture and richness, binding the salad together with fat and emulsifier.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour and slightly firms the surface of the chicken.
Tinned lobster
Contributes the main seafood flavour and a delicate, tender texture.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, parsley, olive, lobster, lemon, onion):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, parsley, olive, lobster, lemon, onion. 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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