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Fried Chicken and Potatoes

Fried chicken pieces served with potato wedges.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,756 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-decenal, which smells green, must. The science ↓

Fried Chicken and Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare

  1. Cut the chicken into pieces and season with salt and pepper.

  2. Heat oil in a frying pan over medium heat.

Fry

  1. Fry the chicken pieces until golden brown and cooked through, about 15-20 minutes.

  2. While the chicken is frying, peel and cut the potatoes into wedges.

  3. In another pan, fry the potato wedges until crispy and golden.

Serve

  1. Serve the fried chicken with the potatoes.

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 + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  2. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

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, which firms and turns opaque as it cooks through.
Potatoes
Starch that softens inside while the outside crisps and browns in hot oil.

The step that matters

Frying the chicken until cooked through. Chicken can brown on the outside before the center reaches a safe internal temperature. Thick pieces need enough time over moderate heat so the inside cooks fully without the coating burning.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits about as well
  3. Potatothe original
  4. Spinachfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, 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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