Name: Fricassee De Poulet II
Ingredients: chicken; curry powder; boiled rice; strained tomato juice; parsley; hard-boiled eggs

Why it works: Chicken and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,769 recipes mention both. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

Fricassee De Poulet II

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken for fricassee.
In a rich creamy sauce, add enough curry powder to flavor it slightly and give it a yellow tint.
Cook the rice until dry, then mix in enough strained tomato juice to achieve a light-red color.
Form a wall of the rice mixture around the edge of a serving dish.
Place the pieces of chicken in the center, with coarser parts below and the best on top.
Pour the yellow sauce over the chicken.
Sprinkle finely chopped parsley on top and place sprigs of fresh parsley evenly around the dish.
Garnish the edge with quarters of hard-boiled eggs.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together4,769 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).
Rice + tomatotop 6% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together3,065 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Tomato + parsleytop 8% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together5,398 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Chicken + tomatotop 8% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together6,031 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Rice + parsleytop 10% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together2,762 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

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

Corianderbetter flavor fit
Garlicbetter flavor fit
Turmericbetter flavor fit
Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, rice, tomato, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).