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Chicken Cutlets a LA Baboda

Chicken cutlets made from finely chopped chicken, breadcrumbs, herbs, and spices, shaped, fried, and served with tomato sauce flavored with mango chutney.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Chicken Cutlets a LA Baboda

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken

  1. Draw and truss the chicken.

  2. Boil it in stock or water for 30 minutes.

  3. Remove the skin.

  4. Cut the chicken into pieces, discarding bones and gristle.

  5. Chop the meat finely.

Make the filling

  1. Place the chopped meat in a stewpan.

  2. Mix in breadcrumbs, onion, parsley, lemon rind, and green chili.

  3. Season with salt, Nepal pepper, and nutmeg.

  4. Add the beaten egg, tarragon, and chervil.

  5. Moisten with white sauce.

  6. Heat until thoroughly hot.

  7. Spread on a dish to cool.

Shape, fry and serve

  1. Shape the mixture into even-sized cutlets.

  2. Dip the cutlets in egg and breadcrumbs.

  3. Fry in boiling butter until light brown.

  4. Drain on a cloth.

  5. Insert a small chicken bone into the smaller end of each cutlet.

  6. Arrange cutlets in a circular form.

  7. Garnish with fried parsley.

  8. Serve with tomato sauce flavored with mango chutney.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Lemon + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,137 recipes

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

  4. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Forms the main body of the cutlets, providing the bulk and savory meat flavor.
Breadcrumbs
Absorb moisture and bind the chopped meat so the cutlets hold their shape.
Egg
Binds the mixture together and forms a coating that browns during frying.
White sauce
Moistens the mixture so the cutlets stay tender rather than dry.
Butter
Conducts heat for frying and adds richness and browning to the crust.

The step that matters

Fry in boiling butter until light brown. Frying in hot butter sears the coating quickly, forming a crisp browned crust that seals the cutlet. Too low a heat lets the coating absorb fat and turn greasy, and too high a heat burns the butter before the centre is hot.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, parsley, lemon, pepper, nutmeg, egg, tarragon):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, parsley, lemon, pepper, nutmeg, egg, tarragon. 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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