Name: Quenelles De Volaille Sauce Supreme
Ingredients: Chicken quenelle meat; 1 pint supreme sauce; Mashed potatoes; Mushrooms; Asparagus; Peas

Why it works: Asparagus and peas match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 808 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Quenelles De Volaille Sauce Supreme

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken quenelle meat as directed in the recipe.
Shape the quenelles and poach them according to instructions.
Place the quenelles on a border of mashed potatoes.
Pour the supreme sauce over the quenelles.
Add the vegetables in the center.

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.

Asparagus + peastop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together808 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Potato + asparagustop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together217 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,172 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).
Mushroom + asparagustop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together400 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Chicken + potatotop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,756 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, meat, sauce, potato, mushroom, asparagus):

Beansfits better
Sesamefits better
Peanutfits better
Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, meat, sauce, potato, mushroom, asparagus. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.