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Chestnut Curry

Chestnut curry is a dish of chestnuts simmered in curry sauce, served with rice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Chestnut and rice work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 169 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Chestnut Curry

Ingredients

Directions

Make the curry

  1. Prepare the chestnuts and place them in the hot curry sauce.

  2. Simmer for one hour.

Finish and serve

  1. Add lemon juice if necessary.

  2. Serve immediately with rice on the side.

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. Chestnut + ricetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Chestnut + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together381 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  4. Chestnut + saucetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together255 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Rice + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,396 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

Chestnuts
Provide the main body and starchy, mild texture of the dish.
Curry sauce
Carries the flavour and moistens the chestnuts during simmering.
Boiled rice
Served alongside to soak up the sauce and add bulk.

Swap the lemon

The recipe marks lemon as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chestnut, rice, sauce):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chestnut, rice, 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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