Name: Nut Croquettes
Ingredients: 1 cup chopped chicken or veal; ½ cup chopped nuts (Brazil nuts, English walnuts, or pecans); sauce (to taste)

Why it works: Chicken and nuts work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 58 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Nut Croquettes

Ingredients

1 cup chopped chicken or veal
½ cup chopped nuts (Brazil nuts, English walnuts, or pecans)
sauce (to taste)

Directions

In a bowl, combine the chopped chicken or veal with the chopped nuts.
Mix in the sauce until well combined.

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.

Chicken + nutstop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together58 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Chicken + saucetop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,513 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Nuts + saucetop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together75 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).