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Breaded Mutton Cutlets

Breaded mutton cutlets are seasoned, egg-coated, breaded, fried, and served with tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,923 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Breaded Mutton Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the cutlets nicely and season with salt and pepper.

  2. Beat the egg and dip the cutlets in it, then coat with bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in boiling oil or fat for ten minutes.

  2. Arrange on a hot platter and pour tomato sauce around them before serving.

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. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Bread + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Mutton + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,488 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,469 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg
Binds the bread crumbs so they stick to the cutlets as they fry.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned coating that seals in the meat's juices during frying.
Mutton cutlets
Provide the meat that is cooked through in the hot oil or fat.

The step that matters

Frying in boiling oil or fat. The fat must be hot enough to brown and crisp the coating quickly. If it is too cool, the crumbs absorb oil and turn greasy before the meat cooks through.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, pepper, egg, bread, sauce):

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Tomatothe original
  4. Shallotfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, pepper, egg, bread, sauce. 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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