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Artichokes Farcis

Artichokes stuffed with forcemeat, parsley, chives, and mushrooms, simmered in stock and served with an oil, herbs, and lemon juice sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Artichoke and chive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 59 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Artichokes Farcis

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the artichokes by removing the choke.

  2. Boil the artichokes in water for 10 minutes.

Stuff and stew

  1. Fill the artichokes with forcemeat, parsley, chives, and finely chopped mushrooms.

  2. Place them in a stewpan with heat from above and below.

  3. Add a little stock to moisten and let them stew slowly.

Serve

  1. Serve with a sauce made of oil, chopped fine herbs, and lemon juice.

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. Artichoke + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Artichoke + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together636 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Parsley + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Artichoke + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together524 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

What each ingredient does

Artichokes
Form the main body of the dish, holding the stuffing while they stew.
Forcemeat
Provides a rich, savoury filling that stays moist during slow stewing.
Mushrooms
Add moisture and earthy flavour to the filling.
Stock
Moistens the dish so it stews gently without drying out.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the oil and herb sauce.

The step that matters

Add a little stock to moisten and let them stew slowly. Gentle, slow stewing with a small amount of liquid lets the artichokes and filling cook through and become tender. Too much heat or too little liquid can dry out the filling or toughen the artichokes.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (artichoke, parsley, chive, mushroom):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Limefits about as well
  4. Cherryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against artichoke, parsley, chive, 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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