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Chicken Sauté Aux Champignons

A sautéed chicken dish with mushrooms, onions, and broth.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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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 ↓

Chicken Sauté Aux Champignons

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the chicken into pieces and season with salt and pepper.

Cook

  1. In a skillet, melt butter over medium heat.

  2. Add the chicken pieces and brown them on all sides.

  3. Remove the chicken and sauté chopped onion until translucent.

  4. Add the mushrooms and cook for a few minutes.

  5. Return the chicken to the skillet and pour in the chicken broth.

  6. Cover and simmer until the chicken is cooked through.

  7. 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 + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

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

  4. Mushroom + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

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 firms and turns opaque as it cooks through.
Mushrooms
Add savory, earthy flavor and moisture as they release their liquid while cooking.
Onion
Adds sweetness and aromatic depth as it softens into the pan.
Chicken broth
Supplies liquid for simmering, moistening the chicken and building savory flavor.

The step that matters

Browning the chicken pieces. Searing the chicken on all sides before simmering creates browned flavor through the Maillard reaction. Pieces that are crowded or wet will steam instead of browning, so they lose that flavor.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, mushroom, pepper, butter):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Tomatofits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, mushroom, pepper, butter. 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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