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Omelette Aux Foies De Volailles

A French omelette filled with chicken livers, parsley, eggs, salt, pepper, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Omelette Aux Foies De Volailles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the chicken livers and keep them warm.

  2. In a bowl, whisk together eggs, chopped parsley, salt, and pepper.

  3. Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat.

Cook and serve

  1. Pour the egg mixture into the skillet and cook until set.

  2. Place the chicken livers in the center of the omelet.

  3. Fold the omelet over the livers 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.

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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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Parsley + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Chicken livers
Provide the rich, savory filling that the omelette is folded around.
Eggs
Set into the structure of the omelette, holding the filling together.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the egg mixture cook without sticking to the skillet.
Parsley
Adds a fresh, herbal aroma and flavour to the egg mixture.

The step that matters

Cook the egg mixture until set. Eggs turn firm as their proteins coagulate with heat. Cooking over medium heat until just set keeps the omelette tender and prevents it from becoming rubbery or dry, and leaves it stable enough to fold over the livers.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Parsleythe original
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Sagefits less well
  4. Tarragonfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, liver, egg, 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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