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With Mushrooms, Truffles and Wine

Chicken simmered with truffles, mushrooms, wine, stock, and aromatics.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

With Mushrooms, Truffles and Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken

  1. Season the chicken with salt and pepper.

  2. Coat the chicken in browned flour and fry in olive oil.

Braise

  1. Add onion, garlic, red pepper, parsley, and stock to the pan.

  2. Cook for about 1.5 hours.

  3. Stir in the sliced truffles, mushrooms, and white wine.

  4. Cook for an additional 45 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve on toast.

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

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

  3. Truffle + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Mushroom + white winetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  5. Olive + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,649 recipes

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

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 that becomes tender during long, slow cooking.
Browned flour
Coats the chicken so it browns during frying and thickens the cooking liquid.
Stock
Supplies the liquid for the long cook, carrying flavor and keeping the chicken moist.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavor and moisture that blends into the sauce as they cook.
Truffles
Contribute a strong, aromatic earthy flavor that perfumes the dish.
White wine
Adds acidity that brightens the sauce and balances the rich stock.

The step that matters

Frying the floured chicken in olive oil. Flour that is browned and fried until golden forms a crust that gives color and flavor to the sauce. Undercooked or pale flour stays starchy and can make the sauce taste raw.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, truffle, mushroom, white wine, olive, onion, pepper):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Rosemaryfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, truffle, mushroom, white wine, olive, onion, pepper. 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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