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Chicken Cutlets

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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 Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix chicken with salt, pepper, onion juice, and chopped mushrooms.

  2. In a large frying pan, heat the cream until it begins to boil.

  3. In a bowl, beat together flour and butter until smooth and light, then stir into the boiling cream.

  4. Stir constantly until the sauce boils again, then add the seasoned chicken and cook for 3 minutes.

  5. Beat 2 eggs until light and stir them into the mixture, then remove from heat.

  6. Pour the mixture into a flat dish and chill for at least 1 hour until very cold.

  7. Butter a cutlet mold and sprinkle some breadcrumbs inside.

  8. Pack the chilled chicken mixture into the mold and tap it on the table to shape the cutlet.

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. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  3. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

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

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

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

Swap the onion

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

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, cream, butter, flour, mushroom, egg, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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