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Mullagatawny Soup, Rabbit

A rabbit soup simmered with onions, curry powder, and mango pickles.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and mango work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 682 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Mullagatawny Soup, Rabbit

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Fry the rabbit pieces in butter until nearly cooked, along with the sliced onions.

  2. Transfer the rabbit and onions to a stewpan and add 1 quart of stock.

  3. Simmer for 1 hour.

Make the soup

  1. Remove the rabbit.

  2. Strain off the onions.

  3. Return the rabbit to the stewpan.

  4. Add 2 more quarts of stock.

  5. Bring to a boil.

  6. Stir in the curry powder.

  7. Add mango pickles just before serving.

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 + mangotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together682 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Rabbit + oniontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,292 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Rabbit + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,448 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + mangotop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together283 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Rabbit
Provides the main meat, which becomes tender during the long simmer.
Onions
Soften during frying and simmering, adding sweetness and body to the stock.
Butter
Fat that browns the rabbit and onions and carries the curry flavour.
Stock
Forms the liquid base of the soup and carries the flavour of the meat.
Curry powder
Adds warm spice aroma and flavour to the broth.

The step that matters

Simmer for 1 hour. A gentle simmer keeps the rabbit tender and lets its flavour release slowly into the stock. A hard boil toughens the meat and can make the broth cloudy.

Swap the mango

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rabbit, onion, butter):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Mangothe original
  3. Lemonfits about as well
  4. Avocadofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against rabbit, onion, butter. 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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