Why it works: Celery and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓
Veal Cutlets
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the cutlets
Squeeze lemon juice over the cutlets and sprinkle with chopped sweet herbs.
Make the sauce
In a saucepan, combine the chopped leek roots, celery, and carrot with the fat from the veal gravy.
Stir the vegetables and fat over heat for 10 minutes.
Add enough flour to form a soft paste and stir for 5 more minutes.
Combine the paste with the veal gravy and simmer for 45 minutes.
Add cream 10 minutes before straining the sauce.
Fry and serve
Roll the cutlets in egg and bread crumbs, then fry in clarified fat until golden brown.
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.
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Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together10,173 recipes
Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
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Leek + carrottop 3% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together1,310 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Lemon + celerytop 3% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together3,467 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Leek + celerytop 4% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together1,093 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Lemon + leektop 8% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together162 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
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What each ingredient does
- Flour
- Forms a soft paste with the fat that thickens the sauce as it cooks.
- Cream
- Adds richness and a smoother, rounder texture to the strained sauce.
- Leek roots, celery, and carrot
- Aromatic vegetables that build the savory base flavor of the sauce.
- Veal gravy fat
- Carries the aromatic vegetables' flavor and helps them soften and brown gently.
The step that matters
Cooking the flour into the fat. Stirring the flour into the hot fat for the full five minutes cooks out its raw starchy taste and lets it thicken the sauce evenly without lumps.
“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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