Why it works: Mutton and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,648 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
Mutton Cutlets
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the meat
Saw off the chine bone and shorten the rib bones if necessary.
Remove the leaf of fat and divide the meat into cutlets.
Trim the skin from the bones and expose half an inch of bone above the eye.
Beat lightly with a wooden spoon dipped in water to form neat cutlets.
Season the cutlets with coarse sea salt.
Coat and fry
Dip in egg and coat with breadcrumbs.
Fry in hot fat for 8 to 10 minutes, depending on thickness.
Serve
Serve with a nice vegetable in the center and pour tomato or other suitable sauce around.
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.
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Mutton + eggtop 26% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,648 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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What each ingredient does
- Mutton
- Forms the main body of the dish, with its meat and fat providing rich flavour when fried.
- Egg
- Binds the breadcrumbs to the cutlets so the coating adheres during frying.
- Breadcrumbs
- Form a crisp, golden coating that browns in the hot fat.
The step that matters
Frying in hot fat. The fat must be hot enough to brown the breadcrumb coating quickly. If it is too cool, the coating absorbs oil and turns greasy before the meat cooks through.
“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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