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Chicken Saute Aux Champignons

A sautéed chicken dish with mushrooms, butter, sherry, brown sauce, tomato pulp, parsley, onion, sugar, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20,633 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Chicken Saute Aux Champignons

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and cook

  1. Divide the chicken into neat pieces, removing all skin and excess bone.

  2. Fry the chicken in butter for 10 minutes.

  3. Add the remaining ingredients, ensuring the onion is very finely chopped.

  4. Stew gently for 30 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve in an entree dish, straining the sauce over the chicken.

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. Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

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

  2. Tomato + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,398 recipes

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

  3. Chicken + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 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, which becomes tender through gentle stewing.
Butter
Adds fat for frying, carrying flavour and helping the chicken brown.
White mushrooms
Add moisture and savoury flavour to the sauce as they release liquid while stewing.
Brown sauce
Forms the body of the sauce, adding richness and depth of flavour.
Tomato pulp or sauce
Adds acidity and a rounded tomato flavour that balances the richness of the sauce.

The step that matters

Stew gently for 30 minutes. Gentle heat keeps the chicken tender and the sauce smooth; a rapid boil toughens the meat's proteins and can cause the sauce to reduce unevenly or stick.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, butter, sherry, sauce, tomato, onion, sugar):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, butter, sherry, sauce, tomato, onion, sugar. 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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