Chicken and mushroom don't go together...

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They don't! Both have a fairly bland flavour...unlike other combinations which work well such as eggs and bacon or vinegar on chips....chicken and mushroom should not be a thing.

AIBU?

Chicken, mushrooms, onions, cream and white wine. Salt and pepper.

Add a bit of mustard to the cream sauce.

@wildraisins

It's only bland if you don't cook it properly. Lots of foods are bland on their own, that's why you add seasoning, spices, sides etc :)

This. People who say mushrooms and / or chicken is bland are def overcooking them or not using the correct seasonings / spices. Or maybe need to get their tongue scraped to reawaken tastebuds. Mushrooms have a really strong flavour even when ‘mild’ that’s enhanced by fresh garlic or paprika or specific types of green and red chillis / pepper.

Also, sautéing the onions, mushrooms and chicken is important for adding flavour.

GrossPoint fancy commenting on such a shit thread! You need a hobby!

Everyone else I will accept that I'm wrong. I think my aversion is from the 70s and early 80s...on very rare occasions my Mum would serve me chicken and mushroom pies....frozen type ones by Birdseye and I always felt ill after them....probably had pounds of salt in each one back then!

This memory has only just resurfaced!

Zilla no I just never cook them at all! See my last post...I've realised my last memory of them is from the 1980s frozen Bird's Eye ones! They traumatised me so much that I've not eaten it since! I can cook...maybe I will try and then the bad memory will go!

If you think mushrooms are bland, you definitely aren't cooking them right!

I always assumed that the mushroom was pretending to be more chicken so you could pad out a chicken dish.

I had a chicken and mushroom pie yesterday and I have to admit the mushrooms were a bit leathery and didn't add to the experience.

I don't think burgers go in bread buns, just don't see that the bun adds anything to it except I suppose you can eat it on the hoof. A minute steak sandwich is ok with fried onions but burger buns are tasteless.
And I don't think cheese goes with meat, unless maybe on top of a lasagne or something with a tomato sauce. If you want to add salt to your meat add salt, don't add cheese.

@Sparklfairy

Add garlic and cream and some cracked black pepper. Definitely a good combo!

But all your tasting is the garlic cream and seasoning! So it’s the texture that works well with these items, not the actual taste

Coq au Vin
Chicken with Vin Jaune and Morels

Both classic French dishes.

YANBU to not enjoy any particular combination of ingredients.

That said, given the number of dishes in many different cuisines around the world that combine chicken and mushrooms, this preference clearly makes you abnormal atypical.

It’s chicken and prawn combo that baffle me.

The point of the combo is the blandness. It is a comforting and unchallenging flavour - the culinary equivalent to the unobtrusive string quartet music played at in an upmarket hotel restaurant. Obviously much as there exists more interesting and creative music, there are a great many more interesting and creative food combinations. However, there are contexts where what you really need is something simple and chicken and mushroom is great then.

I do remember overhearing a women in a queue at a company's staff restaurant (so obviously a while ago) complaining that they only had chicken & mushroom pies, and that she didn't like those as they were too spicy! I had to try one - it was like eating wallpaper paste.

@joystir59

Chicken in general is awful. Especially in sandwiches. Chicken sandwiches are not acceptable and chicken and mushroom pies, just yuck!

I quite like chicken and mushroom pie and am not anti chicken in general, but it's a bit of a boring safe choice and would generally go for seafood or lamb instead if there's options, but I agree with you about sandwiches, also pizza.

Anywhere who sells pizza or sandwiches always do far too many options of chicken, plus pepperoni or other types of processed pork. We got a pizza menu through the door and out of 20 pizza options, about 12 involved processed pork, 5 chicken and then just 3 with neither of these and two of those were cheese only. Ridiculous.

I think neither go on pizza as the meat and melty cheese combination is just wrong. See also cheeseburgers, wrong wrong wrong.

On a completely different track, baked beans do not go on baked potatoes, what's that all about?

I realise I sound really fussy but far from it, I like a wide range of food and can always find several things I like on a restaurant menu, to the extent that it takes me ages to choose as there's so many things I want, it's just that some of the more popular choices don't attract me at all.

Glad chocolate and fruit has been mentioned. I don't get it at all. Both delicious but should always be eaten separately

I agree about the pizzas, so much chicken or meat products, I'll eat them but never my first choice.
I want anchovies and olives, perhaps some capers too but living in a small town its never listed, and only one place does them if you ask, and they don't have capers.

Mushrooms are evil, and do not belong anywhere except growing in the forest, so in that case YANBU, but its not really answering your question!

Melt a block of Boursin in and a cup of chicken stock and there you go parts sauce or pie filling. V v yummy.

Brillo me too! I avoid chicken on a pizza. I used to eat a lot of chicken...maybe I've gone off it now.

I love mushrooms fried in butter but that's it!

Even better in a chicken, leek and mushroom pie, with lots of mash on top.

I’m not a fan of mushrooms, the texture is yuk but calling mushrooms bland is just plain silly. Mushrooms when cooked properly impart the oh so converted umami taste and add a depth and richness to a lot of dishes. Friends say they couldn’t be vegetarian without mushrooms.

Chicken can be bland if you only use the white meat and don’t season it properly. Eat Hainanese chicken and tell me that chicken is bland? Or tell a Chinese cook that mushroom and chicken aren’t a combo.

I’m almost with you. My husband’s preference is just mushroom and I reached a point where I find them bland, dull and a bit slimy. I eat them, I put them in things but he would have them every day.
I do chicken and mushroom pie but it is a bit lacking in interest and ‘bite’.

Maybe our tastebuds have been taught to want more as we’ve explored more global tastes?

@dramaalpaca, It will, as everything does, depend on taste but there's a chicken in cheese and leek sauce which I found works.