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Chicken-Liver Omelet

A quick omelet made with sautéed chicken livers, eggs, butter, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13,902 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Chicken-Liver Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the livers

  1. Remove the gall pouch from the chicken livers carefully.

  2. Wash the livers in cold water and parboil them slightly.

  3. Quarter the livers if they are too large.

Make the omelette

  1. In a skillet, melt the butter over medium heat.

  2. Beat the eggs and season with salt and pepper.

  3. Pour the eggs into the skillet and cook until set.

  4. Add the livers on top and fold the omelet in half.

  5. Cook for another minute until the livers are heated through.

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

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

  2. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  3. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Chicken + livertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together383 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Liver + buttertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken livers
Provide the rich, savoury filling that gives the omelette its main flavour and texture.
Eggs
Set into the structure of the omelette, holding the filling together as they cook.
Butter
Adds richness and helps keep the eggs from sticking to the skillet while they cook.

The step that matters

Cook the livers through without overcooking. Livers are delicate and turn grainy and dry if overcooked, so they need only enough gentle heat to warm through once the eggs are set.

“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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