Why it works: Chicken and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,344 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓
Pickled Chicken
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the chicken until the meat falls from the bones.
Remove the meat and place it in a jar.
Mix vinegar with half the amount of the cooking water.
Pour the mixture over the chicken in the jar.
Season to taste with salt.
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.
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Chicken + vinegartop 27% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together3,344 recipes
Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
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