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Mutton Cutlets

Mutton cutlets are marinated mutton slices cooked with spices, onions, cream, and lime juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and cardamom match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,114 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Mutton Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pound the ginger with a little ghee, season with salt, and rub into the mutton slices.

  2. Let it stand for 1 hour.

Make the curry

  1. Fry the sliced onion in hot ghee until lightly browned.

  2. Add the marinated mutton to the stewpan with garlic, ground cloves, cardamom, and pepper.

  3. Fry until the meat is cooked, ensuring the onions do not burn.

  4. Add cream, ground almonds, saffron, lime juice, and salt.

  5. Cover and cook slowly for 20 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve with plainly boiled rice.

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. Clove + cardamomtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,114 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Cardamom + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together190 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton
Main protein that becomes tender and firm as it cooks through.
Cream
Adds fat and richness, giving the sauce a smooth, rounded body.
Ground almonds
Thicken the sauce and add nutty body and texture.
Lime juice
Adds acidity that brightens the dish and helps tenderise the marinated meat.
Onion
Browning gives sweetness and savoury depth to the base of the dish.

The step that matters

Brown the onion lightly without burning. Gentle browning caramelises the onion's sugars for sweetness and depth. Burnt onion turns bitter and can spoil the whole sauce, so keep the heat controlled and stir often.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clove, cardamom, lime, garlic, cream, pepper, ghee):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against clove, cardamom, lime, garlic, cream, pepper, ghee. 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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