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Marangot — Chicken, Leg of Lamb, or Rabbit

A braised chicken stew with soup, vegetables, herbs, and mushrooms.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Marangot — Chicken, Leg of Lamb, or Rabbit

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice and brown the chicken in fat.

  2. Once browned, add the soup, onion, carrot, thyme, parsley, garlic, and green onion, then cook for a short while.

  3. Add mushrooms and cook for about 1 hour.

  4. If desired, add chopped parsley before serving.

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. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Carrot + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

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

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, once browned and simmered, flavour for the stew.
Soup
Adds liquid and savoury body to the stew as it cooks.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavour and soft, tender texture during the long cook.

Swap the parsley

The recipe marks parsley as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, onion, carrot, thyme, garlic, mushroom):

  1. Marjoramfits about as well
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Cuminfits about as well
  4. Rosemaryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, onion, carrot, thyme, garlic, mushroom. 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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