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Poulet Roti. — Roast Chicken

A whole chicken stuffed with bacon, liver, parsley, green onions, and salt, roasted with bacon slices and paper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,814 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Poulet Roti. — Roast Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Stuff the chicken with grated bacon, minced liver, parsley, green onions, and salt, then sew it up tightly.

  2. Heat the chicken with the skimmings from the pot in a stewpan for a few minutes.

Roast

  1. Cover the chicken with thin slices of bacon and paper.

  2. Roast the chicken in a moderate oven (350°F / 175°C).

  3. Ensure the fire is not too hot to keep the chicken pale.

Serve

  1. Serve with your choice of sauce.

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

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

  2. Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Liver + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,420 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Liver + parsleytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Chicken + livertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together383 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken liver
Adds richness and moisture to the stuffing as it cooks.
Bacon
Fat from the bacon bastes the bird and adds savoury flavour as it renders.

The step that matters

Keep the heat moderate. A fire or oven that is too hot browns and dries the outside before the inside cooks through. Moderate heat keeps the skin pale and lets the stuffing and meat cook evenly.

Swap the parsley

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, liver, onion. 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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