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Carrots a LA Turque

A baked carrot dish with rice, butter, eggs, gravy, and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Carrots a LA Turque

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. Boil the fine slices of carrots until tender.

  2. Prepare ½ pound of rice in some gravy until it swells.

  3. Mix the rice with ½ pound of butter and 3 eggs, and season with coarse sea salt.

Assemble and bake

  1. Form a ring with the rice around a dish and place the carrots inside.

  2. Spread any remaining rice on top and smooth it out.

  3. Pour some gravy over the dish and cover it with the yolk of an egg.

  4. Dot with butter and sprinkle with bread crumbs.

  5. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven for 1 hour.

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.

  1. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Carrot + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,477 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Rice + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

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

  5. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Rice
Swells in gravy and sets with the eggs to form the body of the bake.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, and browns on the surface in the oven.
Eggs
Bind the rice mixture so it holds its shape when baked.
Carrots
Provide the sweet, tender vegetable filling inside the rice ring.

The step that matters

Forming the rice ring around the carrots. Rice that is packed too loosely or too thinly can crack or spread during baking, so the carrots may be exposed. Pressing the rice firmly and evenly keeps the ring intact and holds the filling in place as the eggs set.

Swap the carrot

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, butter, egg, bread. 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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