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Consomme Andalusien

A clear chicken consommé garnished with diced tomato puree and boiled rice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 ↓

Consomme Andalusien

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the royale

  1. Prepare a mold of royale using tomato puree and let it cool completely.

  2. Cut the cooled royale into small dice.

Serve

  1. Place the diced royale in a tureen and add the boiled rice.

  2. Pour the boiling chicken consommé over the garnish and serve immediately.

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken consommé
Forms the clear, flavourful broth that the garnish sits in.
Tomato purée
Colours and flavours the royale, giving it a tomato taste.
Boiled rice
Adds bulk and a soft, starchy bite to the soup.

The step that matters

Let the royale cool completely before dicing. Cooling lets the set custard firm up fully, so the small dice keep their shape instead of crumbling or smearing when added to the hot consommé.

Swap the tomato

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, 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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