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Curried Mutton Cutlets

Curried mutton cutlets served with rice and curry sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,488 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Curried Mutton Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cutlets

  1. Season the mutton cutlets with curry powder.

  2. Dip each cutlet in beaten egg.

  3. Coat each cutlet with bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat fat in a pan and fry the cutlets until golden brown.

  2. Drain the fried cutlets well.

  3. Arrange the cutlets on a potato border.

  4. Fill the center with cooked rice.

  5. Pour curry sauce around the cutlets.

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. Mutton + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,488 recipes

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

  2. Bread + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,259 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Mutton + ricetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,019 recipes

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

  5. Sauce + ricetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,396 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton cutlets
Provide the main meat, which stays tender and juicy when cooked briefly in hot fat.
Beaten egg
Acts as a glue so the bread crumbs adhere to the cutlets.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns when fried.
Curry powder
Adds the spiced, aromatic flavour that defines the dish.

The step that matters

Drain the fried cutlets well. Excess frying fat left on the surface makes the crumb coating greasy and soggy. Draining lets steam escape so the crust stays crisp.

“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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