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Chicken Livers En Bkochette with Bacon

A dish of chicken livers and bacon skewered, breaded, broiled, and finished with butter and watercress.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Chicken Livers En Bkochette with Bacon

6 skewers

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the gall from the chicken livers and dry them with a clean cloth.

  2. Season the livers with salt and pepper, then cut each liver in half.

  3. Broil the bacon slices for 1 minute, then cut each slice into 6 pieces.

Assemble and broil

  1. Skewer a piece of liver and a piece of bacon onto each of the 6 skewers.

  2. Heat the oil in a dish.

  3. Dip the skewers in fresh bread crumbs.

  4. Broil the skewers for 5 minutes on each side over moderate heat.

Serve

  1. Arrange the skewers on a hot dish.

  2. Pour the melted butter over them.

  3. Garnish with watercress.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Pepper + watercresstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together983 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

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

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

  5. Bread + watercresstop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together307 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken livers
Provide the tender, rich meat that forms the body of each skewer.
Lean bacon
Adds savoury flavour and fat that bastes the livers as the bacon renders during broiling.
Fresh bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns under the broiler and helps hold the skewer together.
Maître d'hôtel butter
Adds richness and herbed flavour, melting over the hot skewers to moisten them.

The step that matters

Broil the skewers for 5 minutes on each side over moderate heat. Livers are delicate and overcook quickly, becoming dry and grainy. Moderate heat lets the crumb coating brown while the centre stays tender and slightly pink, and the bacon renders its fat to keep the meat moist.

“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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