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Breaded Tongue

Breaded tongue slices served with tomato sauce and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,398 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Breaded Tongue

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tongue

  1. Slice the cold cooked tongue thinly.

  2. Dip the slices in the beaten egg, then coat with bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the breaded tongue slices until brown.

  2. Prepare a tomato sauce as previously directed.

  3. Pour the sauce into a deep platter and lay the fried tongue slices on top.

  4. Garnish with parsley and serve immediately.

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. Parsley + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,398 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,469 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

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

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, sliced thin for even coating and frying.
Beaten egg
Acts as a binder so the bread crumbs adhere to the tongue slices.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned crust when fried, contrasting with the tender meat.
Tomato sauce
Provides moisture and acidity, forming the base the fried slices rest on.

The step that matters

Frying the breaded tongue until brown. The coating must be dry and set before it browns. If the oil is too cool, the crumbs absorb grease and turn soggy instead of crisp, and the Maillard browning that gives flavour and colour is slowed.

Swap the parsley

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

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

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