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Chicken Saute

A stew of whole chicken, tomatoes, olives, and mushrooms, simmered until the meat falls off the bones.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Chicken Saute

Oven, in the book's wordsA very hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stew the chicken until it falls off the bones.

  2. Remove all the meat, chop it, and return it to the broth.

  3. Add the chopped tomatoes, olives, mushrooms, and seasoning.

  4. Simmer for three hours.

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. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

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

  2. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  3. Olive + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,571 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Tomato + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,719 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. 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
Provides the main protein and flavor, with meat that becomes tender from long stewing.
Tomatoes
Add acidity and moisture, and break down to thicken the sauce as they simmer.
Olives
Add salty, briny flavor that contrasts with the rich chicken and tomatoes.
Mushrooms
Add savory, earthy flavor and soft texture to the finished dish.

The step that matters

Simmer for three hours. A long, gentle simmer lets collagen in the chicken break down into gelatin, which makes the meat tender and the broth fuller. Keeping the heat low avoids a tough, dry texture.

“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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