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Nut Cutlets

Slices of potato coated in egg and cracker crumbs, broiled with butter, topped with cheese, nuts, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,855 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Nut Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice cold simmered potatoes into large thick slices.

  2. Dip the slices into beaten eggs, then roll in cracker crumbs.

Cook and finish

  1. Broil quickly on a buttered pan and arrange on a hot platter.

  2. Sprinkle with grated cheese and let stand in the oven for a moment.

  3. Sprinkle again with chopped nuts and garnish with parsley.

  4. 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. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  2. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  3. Potato + nutstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Potato + cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together959 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the cracker crumbs to the potato slices so they hold together and brown.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp coating that browns under the broiler.
Butter
Adds fat to the pan, helping the coating brown and preventing sticking.
Grated cheese
Melts over the hot slices, adding richness and savory flavor.
Chopped nuts
Add crunch and a toasty, nutty flavor on top.

The step that matters

Broil quickly on a buttered pan. Broiling only briefly browns the crumb coating while the potato stays tender. Longer heat dries the potato and can burn the crumbs before the centre is hot.

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, egg, butter, cheese, parsley):

  1. Walnutfits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Chickpeafits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, egg, butter, cheese, parsley. 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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