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Paprika Schnitzel with Noodles

A veal schnitzel topped with a paprika and sour cream sauce, served with noodles.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Paprika Schnitzel with Noodles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the veal

  1. Season the veal steaks with coarse sea salt and pepper.

  2. Roll the steaks in flour and fry in butter for 5 minutes.

Make the sauce

  1. In a separate pan, sauté the chopped onion and minced garlic for a few minutes.

  2. Add 1 tablespoon of paprika and 1 tablespoon of flour, mixing well.

  3. Stir in 1½ cups of sour cream and ¾ cup of bouillon, then boil for 10 minutes.

  4. Strain the sauce over the veal steaks and let them simmer for 10 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve on a hot platter and garnish with noodles.

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  5. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Veal steaks
The main protein, which the flour coating and sauce surround and finish.
Flour
Coats the steaks to help them brown in the butter and thickens the sauce.
Sour cream
Adds richness and a tangy acidity, and thickens gently as it simmers in the sauce.
Paprika
Gives the sauce its characteristic sweet, smoky red color and warm flavor.
Onion
Adds savory sweetness and aromatic depth to the sauce base.
Bouillon
Supplies the liquid that becomes the body of the sauce.

The step that matters

Boiling the sauce after adding the sour cream. Sour cream can curdle or separate when it gets too hot. Keeping the sauce at a gentle, controlled boil while the flour and sour cream combine helps it stay smooth and cohesive.

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, pepper, flour, butter, onion, cream):

  1. Parsleyfits about as well
  2. Garlicthe original
  3. Nutmegfits about as well
  4. Turmericfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pepper, flour, butter, onion, cream. 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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