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Fricassee De Poulet II

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 II

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the chicken for fricassee.

  2. In a rich creamy sauce, add enough curry powder to flavor it slightly and give it a yellow tint.

  3. Cook the rice until dry, then mix in enough strained tomato juice to achieve a light-red color.

  4. Form a wall of the rice mixture around the edge of a serving dish.

  5. Place the chicken pieces in the center, with coarser parts below and the best on top.

  6. Pour the yellow sauce over the chicken.

  7. Sprinkle finely chopped parsley on top and place sprigs of fresh parsley evenly around the dish.

  8. Garnish the edge with quarters of hard-boiled eggs.

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. Tomato + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,398 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Rice + parsleytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,762 recipes

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

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

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Corianderfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, rice, tomato, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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