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Breaded Tongue

Breaded Tongue is sliced cold cooked tongue coated in egg and breadcrumbs, fried, and served with tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,013 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Breaded Tongue

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the cold cooked tongue thinly.

  2. Dip each slice into the beaten egg, then coat with bread crumbs.

Cook and serve

  1. Fry the slices until light brown.

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Bread + saucetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,934 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Egg + tomatotop 34% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,890 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
Is the main protein that is sliced, coated and fried.
Beaten egg
Binds the bread crumbs to the tongue slices so the coating adheres while frying.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp coating that browns when fried.
Tomato sauce
Provides moisture and acidity as the base the fried slices rest on.

The step that matters

Frying until light brown. Frying at a moderate heat browns the crumb coating through Maillard reactions while keeping the tongue hot. Overcooking dries the meat and darkens the coating, so the slices should be turned for even colour and removed once golden.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Shallotfits about as well
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, bread, 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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