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Chicken Jumbole

A chicken dish baked with bacon, rice, stewed tomatoes, and the cooking liquor.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 Jumbole

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken

  1. Parboil the chicken pieces until thoroughly cooked.

Assemble and bake

  1. In a dripping pan, place the bacon and chicken pieces.

  2. Add small pieces of butter and season with salt and pepper.

  3. Cover the chicken with freshly cooked rice.

  4. Pour stewed tomatoes over the rice, then add the cooking liquor.

  5. Bake until the chicken is well done.

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

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

  2. Rice + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,065 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 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. 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
Provides the main protein and savoury meat flavour that the rice and tomatoes carry.
Breakfast bacon
Renders fat into the pan and adds smoky, salty flavour to the chicken.
Butter
Adds fat and richness that helps the chicken brown and taste rounder.
Rice
Soaks up the cooking liquor and tomatoes, becoming tender and flavourful as it bakes.
Stewed tomatoes
Add acidity and moisture that season the rice and keep the dish from drying out.

The step that matters

Bake until the chicken is well done. Chicken must reach a safe internal temperature throughout; pieces that are only partly cooked can carry foodborne bacteria. Judge doneness by temperature rather than colour, since the rice and tomatoes can hide the meat.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Tomatothe original
  4. Asparagusfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, butter, 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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