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Oreilles De Veau En Marinade

Fried veal ears marinated with herbs, vinegar, and spices, served with fried parsley garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Oreilles De Veau En Marinade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the veal

  1. Cook the veal ears in a white broth until tender.

  2. Drain the veal ears and cut each ear into four pieces.

Make the sauce

  1. In a pan, sauté the carrot and onion in butter with parsley, thyme, bay leaf, basil, garlic, cloves, pepper, and salt.

  2. Add vinegar and broth, then simmer until cooked.

  3. Strain the mixture through a cloth.

  4. Keep the veal ears warm.

Fry and serve

  1. When ready to fry, drain the veal ears and coat them in frying batter.

  2. Fry the veal ears in hot oil until golden.

  3. Serve the veal ears garnished with fried parsley.

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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  3. Thyme + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  4. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Parsley + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,351 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal ears
Main protein; cooking in broth until tender gives a soft texture that the batter coating contrasts with.
Frying batter
Forms a crisp golden coating that browns in hot oil and seals in moisture.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the sauce and balances the richness of the vegetables.
Onion
Sautéed with carrot to build a sweet, savoury base for the sauce.

The step that matters

Fry the veal ears in hot oil until golden. The veal must be fully tender before frying, since the short fry only browns the batter. Oil that is not hot enough lets the coating absorb grease and turn soggy instead of crisp.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, carrot, parsley, thyme, basil, garlic, clove):

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, carrot, parsley, thyme, basil, garlic, clove. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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