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Broiled Chicken

A whole chicken roasted on a grill, seasoned with salt, pepper, butter, and served with salt pork, lemon slices, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley 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 ↓

Broiled Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Split the chicken down the back and wipe it dry.

  2. Season the chicken with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

  3. Preheat a grill over hot coals.

Broil

  1. Place the chicken skin-side down on the grill.

  2. Broil until nicely browned and cooked through, turning carefully to avoid burning.

  3. Add the salt pork to the grill and cook alongside the chicken.

Finish and serve

  1. Remove from the grill and rub plenty of butter over the chicken.

  2. Serve garnished with the pork, lemon slices, and parsley.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

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

  4. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  5. Butter + porktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,933 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Young chicken
Provides the main protein, which cooks through and browns over the coals.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the finished chicken after grilling.
Salt pork
Renders fat as it cooks beside the chicken, adding savory flavor and aroma.

The step that matters

Turning the chicken carefully over hot coals. Direct high heat browns the skin quickly and can scorch it before the thick parts cook through. Turning gently and watching the heat keeps the skin browned, not burnt, while the meat cooks evenly.

“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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