HEN AND CHICK MUSHROOM RECIPES

Ask 30 people how to make this simple Taiwanese recipe, and you’ll receive 30 different responses. Some fry the chicken before braising it, use more oil, less wine, different blends of soy sauce. Debates rage over how thick the sauce should be, over which parts of the chicken to use. (Few follow the folk recipe that calls for making the sauce with a cup each of sesame oil, soy sauce and rice wine. “If you actually cook it that way,” says Eddie Huang, the Taiwanese-American chef who inspired the television program “Fresh Off the Boat,” “you’ll be in trouble.”) Our reporting and testing led us to the recipe below. Use it as a starting point, and then make it your own.

Provided by Sam Sifton

Total Time 30 minutes

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 10

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : @context http//schema.org, Calories 673, UnsaturatedFatContent 32 grams, CarbohydrateContent 10 grams, FatContent 48 grams, FiberContent 1 gram, ProteinContent 40 grams, SaturatedFatContent 12 grams, SodiumContent 764 milligrams, SugarContent 3 grams, TransFatContent 0 grams

If there’s such a thing as boomer cuisine, it can be found in the pages of “The Silver Palate Cookbook” by Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso. With its chirpy tone and “Moosewood”-in-the-city illustrations, the book, published in time for Mother’s Day in 1982, gave millions of home cooks who hadn’t mastered the art of French cooking the courage to try sophisticated dishes like escabeche, wild mushroom soup and that new thing called pesto. This recipe, also in the book, came to The Times in a 2007 article celebrating the 25th anniversary edition. The briny-sweet combination once seemed as risky (capers! prunes!) as the East Village, but now it's considered as classic as Grand Central.

Provided by Christine Muhlke

Total Time 1 hours 20 minutes

Yield 6 to 8 servings

Number Of Ingredients 14

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : @context http//schema.org, Calories 928, UnsaturatedFatContent 40 grams, CarbohydrateContent 40 grams, FatContent 59 grams, FiberContent 5 grams, ProteinContent 56 grams, SaturatedFatContent 15 grams, SodiumContent 1079 milligrams, SugarContent 27 grams, TransFatContent 0 grams