Name: Chicken with Tarragon Sauce
Ingredients: fresh tarragon; chicken; sauce

Why it works: Tarragon and chicken work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 619 recipes. Both carry anethole, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

Chicken with Tarragon Sauce

Ingredients

fresh tarragon
chicken
sauce

Directions

Prepare the chicken as directed in your preferred method.
Add a few small sprigs of fresh tarragon to the sauce about 10 minutes before serving.
Pour some of the sauce over the chicken.
Serve the remaining sauce in a sauce-boat.

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.

Tarragon + chickentop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together619 recipes

Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).
Tarragon + saucetop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together566 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Chicken + saucetop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,513 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).