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Cureied Chicken

A chicken dish cooked with onions, tomatoes, milk, curry powder, and pork.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,417 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Cureied Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Fry the chicken lightly in a little butter.

  2. Cut the pork into small dice and fry until nearly melted.

Make the sauce

  1. Add the finely chopped onions and cook until softened but not browned.

  2. Stir in the flour, then add the milk.

  3. Combine all ingredients in a saucepan and cook slowly for 5 hours, stirring frequently and leaving uncovered.

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. Chicken + porktop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,031 recipes

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Thickens the milk and onion mixture into a smooth, creamy sauce.
Milk
Forms the liquid base of the sauce and adds creaminess as it simmers.
Onions
Soften and sweeten as they cook, adding body to the sauce.
Pork
Melts into the dish, adding fat and richness to the sauce.
Chicken
Provides the main protein; light frying adds color and flavor.

The step that matters

Long, slow simmer uncovered. Cooking for 5 hours with frequent stirring lets the sauce reduce and thicken evenly and keeps flour from scorching on the bottom of the pan.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, onion, milk, pork, flour, butter):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Chivefits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, onion, milk, pork, flour, butter. 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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