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Breaded Tongue

Breaded tongue slices are coated in egg and breadcrumbs, fried, and served with tomato sauce, parsley, and sliced olives.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Breaded Tongue

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the cold cooked tongue.

  2. Dip the slices in the beaten egg.

  3. Coat the slices in bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the breaded tongue in hot oil until brown.

  2. Pour tomato sauce onto a platter.

  3. Lay the fried tongue slices on the sauce.

  4. Garnish with parsley and sliced olives.

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. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Parsley + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,649 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Tomato + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,398 recipes

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

  4. Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Bread + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 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

Cold cooked tongue
Forms the main body of the dish, carrying the flavour and texture.
Egg
Binds the bread crumbs to the tongue slices so the coating holds during frying.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned coating when fried in hot oil.
Tomato sauce
Adds moisture and acidity under the fried slices.

The step that matters

Fry the breaded tongue in hot oil until brown. Oil that is hot enough sets the egg and crumb coating quickly, so it crisps and browns rather than absorbing oil and turning greasy or falling off the meat.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, bread, tomato, sauce, olive):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Tarragonfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, bread, tomato, sauce, olive. 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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