Name: Fried Veal with Tomatoes
Ingredients: veal, thinly sliced; coarse sea salt; butter; tomatoes, stewed and sieved

Why it works: Veal and tomato work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 709 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Fried Veal with Tomatoes

Ingredients

veal, thinly sliced
coarse sea salt
butter
tomatoes, stewed and sieved

Directions

Season the veal slices with coarse sea salt.
Fry the veal in a pan until nicely browned.
Prepare the tomatoes by stewing them until very dry and passing them through a sieve to remove seeds.
Add the sieved tomatoes to the pan with the fried veal.
Incorporate enough butter to create a rich gravy.
Pour the hot tomato gravy over the veal 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.

Veal + tomatotop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together709 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Butter + tomatotop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,918 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Veal + buttertop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,381 recipes

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