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Chicken Klopps

Chicken Klopps are poached chicken balls served on buttered toast with asparagus and rich white sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and asparagus work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 539 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Chicken Klopps

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, mix the chicken, egg whites, salt, and paprika thoroughly.

  2. Moisten your hands with cold water and shape the mixture into round balls.

Poach and serve

  1. Bring a saucepan of white stock to just below boiling.

  2. Carefully add the balls to the stock and poach for about five minutes without letting the water bubble.

  3. Serve the Klopps on rounds of buttered toast, garnished with a stalk of asparagus.

  4. Pour a rich white sauce around the Klopps before serving.

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.

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 + asparagustop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Egg + asparagustop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Asparagus + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together573 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Chicken + saucetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,513 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Chicken + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,991 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Provides the main body and bulk of the Klopps.
Egg whites
Bind the chicken so the balls hold their shape while poaching.

The step that matters

Poach without letting the water bubble. A gentle, just-below-boiling simmer cooks the protein evenly and keeps the balls tender. A rolling boil can agitate and break them apart.

Swap the asparagus

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

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Asparagusthe original
  3. Tomatofits about as well
  4. Mustardfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, egg, sauce. 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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