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Lamb Chops a l'Africaine

Lamb chops seasoned with salt and pepper, then rubbed with chutney and broiled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,165 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Lamb Chops a l'Africaine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut a lamb chop or cutlet.

Broil and serve

  1. Broil over a very hot fire, turning continually.

  2. When nearly done, season highly with salt and pepper.

  3. Rub chutney on both sides of each cutlet.

  4. Broil for another minute and serve.

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. Lamb + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,165 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb chop or cutlet
Forms the main body of the dish and carries the meat flavour.
Chutney
Adds sweet-tart flavour, and its sugars brown quickly under the broiler.

The step that matters

Final minute of broiling after the chutney. Chutney contains sugars that darken fast under intense direct heat. Broiling for too long after it is applied can burn the surface before the inside of the cutlet is done, so the extra minute needs close watching.

“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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