Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓
Broiled Fowl
Ingredients
Directions
Grill
Preheat the grill away from the fire.
Place the fowl on the grill and cook until nearly half done.
Carefully turn the fowl to prevent burning.
Brown and serve
Broil until it is a fine brown color.
Serve with stewed mushrooms or a sauce with pickled mushrooms.
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.
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Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together4,172 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Fowl
- Its protein and fat set and brown under heat, giving the cooked meat and skin their color and texture.
The step that matters
Carefully turn the fowl to prevent burning. Direct heat browns the skin and its sugars quickly. Turning exposes the other side to the heat so the outside doesn't char before the inside cooks through.
“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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