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Chicken fillets coated in egg and breadcrumbs, fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and ham are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,497 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Chicken, Fillet of

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cutlets

  1. Cook the chicken mixture for 2 to 3 minutes longer.

  2. Cool the mixture; when firm, shape it into cutlets.

  3. Dip the cutlets in egg, then coat with breadcrumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the cutlets in deep oil until golden brown.

  2. Drain well and arrange them in a close circle on a serving dish.

  3. Garnish with fried parsley and serve hot.

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 + hamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

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

  2. Ham + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,526 recipes

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

  3. Chicken + parsleytop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,314 recipes

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

  4. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

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

  5. Ham + parsleytop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,249 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
Forms the main body of the cutlet and provides its savory flavor.
Egg
Binds the coating so the breadcrumbs adhere to the cutlet.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Cool the mixture until firm before shaping. Cooked chicken mixture is soft while warm and will not hold its shape. Letting it cool and firm up lets the cutlets keep their form through dipping and frying.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Tarragonfits about as well
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Garlicfits about as well
  4. Capersfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, ham, egg. 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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