Name: Mutton Curry with Vegetables
Ingredients: mutton; ghee; coarse sea salt; water; vegetables; tamarind pulp or juice

Why it works: Mutton and ghee work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 246 recipes. The science ↓

Mutton Curry with Vegetables

Ingredients

Directions

Fry the mutton and curry spices together in ghee.
Add coarse sea salt and water.
When the mutton is partially cooked, add the vegetables.
After the vegetables are cooked, stir in tamarind pulp or juice for flavor.

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.

Mutton + gheetop 21% of all pairs

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Cooked together246 recipes
Ghee + tamarindtop 22% of all pairs

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Cooked together106 recipes

Shared aroma: maltol (caramel, sweet).
Mutton + tamarindtop 31% of all pairs

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Cooked together33 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).