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Chicken Hash

A hash of cooked chicken, potatoes, butter, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Chicken Hash

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a saucepan, bring some water to a boil.

  2. Add the potatoes and cook until tender.

Make the hash

  1. Stir in the chopped chicken and season with black pepper, coarse sea salt, and red pepper.

  2. In a small bowl, mix the butter and flour together.

  3. When the hash is nearly done, add the butter‑flour mixture and cook for a few more minutes.

  4. If desired, add chopped onion or substitute old biscuit for the potatoes.

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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Chicken + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  3. Onion + biscuittop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together428 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide starchy bulk and body that gives the hash its substance and texture.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, carrying flavour and helping the mixture brown.
Flour
Mixed with butter and cooked in, it thickens the hash and binds it together.
Cooked chicken
Supplies the main protein and savoury flavour of the hash.

The step that matters

Adding the butter-flour mixture. Flour added to a hot mixture can clump if not blended with fat first; cooking it a few minutes removes raw flour taste and lets it thicken evenly.

Swap the potato

The recipe marks potato as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, butter, flour, pepper, onion, biscuit):

  1. Chivefits about as well
  2. Potatothe original
  3. Okrafits about as well
  4. Spinachfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, butter, flour, pepper, onion, biscuit. 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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