Name: Chicken Oysters
Ingredients: 1 boiled chicken; bread crumbs; oil for frying; peas for serving

Why it works: Bread and peas work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 804 recipes. Both carry hexyl acetate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Chicken Oysters

Ingredients

1 boiled chicken
bread crumbs
oil for frying
peas for serving

Directions

Remove the skin from the boiled chicken.
Cut the chicken into pieces the size and shape of oysters.
Dip each piece in egg, then cover well with bread crumbs.
Fry the pieces in hot oil until golden brown.
Serve with a border of peas.

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.

Bread + peastop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together804 recipes

Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).
Chicken + peastop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,528 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,258 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).