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Fried Spring Chicken with Rice

A dish of fried chicken pieces served over boiled rice.

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 ↓

Fried Spring Chicken with Rice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken

  1. Pluck and singe the chicken, then cut it into small pieces and remove the intestines carefully.

Cook

  1. In a hot frying pan, brown the chicken pieces in enough butter to prevent burning.

  2. Season the chicken with salt and pepper, ensuring it is cooked through in the thickest part.

  3. Meanwhile, boil the rice in plenty of salted boiling water for 20 minutes or until tender.

Serve

  1. Drain the rice and lay it on a hot platter, then serve the fried chicken on top.

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. Pepper + ricetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

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

  4. Butter + ricetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Provides the main protein, which browns in butter and firms as it cooks through.
Butter
Conducts heat for frying and browns the chicken surface, adding richness.
Rice
Forms the starchy base that absorbs moisture and softens as it boils.

The step that matters

Cooking the chicken through in the thickest part. Thick pieces can look browned on the outside while the centre stays undercooked. Frying in hot fat browns the surface quickly, so the interior needs enough time and heat to reach a safe temperature.

“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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