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Omelet, with Chicken Livers

A quick omelet made with sautéed chicken livers, eggs, butter, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13,902 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Omelet, with Chicken Livers

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Clean the chicken livers and chop them finely.

  2. In a bowl, beat the eggs and season with salt and pepper.

Cook the omelet

  1. In a skillet, melt the butter over medium heat.

  2. Add the chopped livers and sauté until cooked through.

  3. Pour the eggs over the livers in the skillet.

  4. Cook until the edges are set, then fold the omelet in half and serve.

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 + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

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

  2. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Chicken + livertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together383 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Liver + buttertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken livers
Provide the rich, savory flavor and tender texture that define the omelet.
Eggs
Set when heated to form the body and structure of the omelet.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps keep the livers and eggs from sticking.

The step that matters

Cook the eggs until the edges are set. Eggs turn from liquid to solid as their proteins coagulate with heat. Cooking until the edges are set but the center is still moist keeps the omelet tender, while overcooking makes it dry and rubbery.

“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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