Name: Chicken, with Supreme Sauce
Ingredients: 1 chicken; 1 pint Supreme sauce; white stock; truffles or mixed vegetables for garnish

Why it works: Chicken and truffle work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 756 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Chicken, with Supreme Sauce

Ingredients

1 chicken
1 pint Supreme sauce
white stock
truffles or mixed vegetables for garnish

Directions

Cook the chicken

Stew the chicken in white stock until tender.
Divide the chicken into neat pieces and set aside the back.

Plate and serve

Place the chicken on a hot dish.
Pour the Supreme sauce over the chicken.
Garnish with truffles or mixed vegetables and serve.

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.

Chicken + truffletop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together756 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Sauce + truffletop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,490 recipes
Chicken + saucetop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,513 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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 dish, becoming tender through slow stewing in liquid.
Supreme sauce: Adds a rich, creamy coating that gives moisture and a smooth finish to the chicken.
White stock: Cooks the chicken gently and keeps it moist while it becomes tender.

“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.