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Australian Meat Curried

A simple curry made with tinned Australian meat, onion, curry powder, and water or stock, served over rice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,433 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Australian Meat Curried

Ingredients

Directions

Make the curry

  1. Chop the onion finely and sauté it in a pan until golden.

  2. Add curry powder to the onion and stir for a minute.

  3. Pour in water or stock and bring to a simmer.

  4. Add the tinned meat, stirring gently to heat through.

Serve

  1. Serve the curry over cooked rice.

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.

Explore the science

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 + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

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

  2. Meat + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,481 recipes

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

  3. Meat + oniontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,364 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Onion
Sautéing until golden builds a sweet, savoury base for the curry.
Curry powder
Blooming in the hot onion releases aromatic compounds that flavour the whole dish.
Tinned australian meat
Provides the main protein, heated through gently in the sauce.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, rice):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, rice. 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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