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Fried Lamb Chops

Fried lamb chops served over mashed potatoes with piquant sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and potato work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 520 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Fried Lamb Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the lamb chops.

  2. Dip the chops in beaten egg, then in breadcrumbs.

  3. Secure the flap ends with a skewer.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the chops until one side is done, then turn and finish the other side.

  2. Drain the cooked chops and decorate the bones with frills.

  3. Serve the chops on a hot dish over a bed of mashed potatoes with a piquant sauce.

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. Lamb + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together520 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Lamb + saucetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together925 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

  3. Potato + saucetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,073 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Lamb + eggtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,204 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Egg + potatotop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,978 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb chops
Provide the main meat, which is cooked through by frying.
Beaten egg
Acts as a binder so the breadcrumbs stick to the chops.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, browned coating when fried.

The step that matters

Fry the chops until one side is done, then turn and finish the other side. Turning the chops only once, after the first side is set, helps the coating form a firm crust without tearing. Cooking the second side fully keeps the meat cooked through without over-browning the coating.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, egg, sauce):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Shallotfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, egg, sauce. 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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