Name: Chicken or Turkey Hash
Ingredients: 1½ cups cold chopped chicken or turkey; ½ cup boiled potato, cut in small pieces; ¼ to ½ cup chicken gravy; Breadcrumbs for topping

Why it works: Chicken and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,756 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-decenal, which smells green, must. The science ↓

Chicken or Turkey Hash

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

1½ cups cold chopped chicken or turkey
½ cup boiled potato, cut in small pieces
¼ to ½ cup chicken gravy
Breadcrumbs for topping

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

Mix the cold chopped chicken or turkey with the boiled potato and chicken gravy.
Season the mixture to taste.
Grease a baking dish and add the mixture.
Cover the top with breadcrumbs.

Bake

Bake in a hot oven at 400°F (200°C) for about 15 minutes.

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.

Chicken + potatotop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,756 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cold chopped chicken or turkey: Provides the main protein and bulk of the hash.
Boiled potato: Adds body and soft texture that holds the hash together.
Chicken gravy: Supplies moisture and savory flavor so the mixture does not dry out in the oven.
Breadcrumbs: Form a crisp, browned topping as they bake in the hot oven.

“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.