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Fricassee De Poulet, Sauce Tomate

A chicken fricassee cooked with rice and tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,769 recipes. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

Fricassee De Poulet, Sauce Tomate

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Singe, draw, and clean the chicken; cut it into joints for fricassee.

Cook

  1. Place the chicken in a stewpan and half cover with boiling water; simmer.

  2. Add the rice and salt; boil gently until the chicken is tender, about 1 to 2 hours depending on the age of the chicken.

Serve

  1. Arrange the chicken in the center of a dish with the rice around it.

  2. Prepare a rich Tomato Sauce and pour it over the chicken.

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 + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  2. Rice + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Chicken + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,469 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Rice + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,396 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
Provides the main protein, which becomes tender as it simmers slowly in water.
Washed rice
Absorbs cooking liquid and softens, forming a starchy base around the chicken.

The step that matters

Simmer gently until the chicken is tender. Boiling hard toughens meat proteins and can break the chicken apart. A gentle simmer lets connective tissue soften slowly, so the chicken stays moist and tender.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Tomatothe original
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Asparagusfits less well
  4. Potatofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, rice, sauce. 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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