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Rabbit with Curry Paste

A rabbit dish cooked in curry paste, served over boiled rice with mango chutney and garnishes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,456 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Rabbit with Curry Paste

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the curry

  1. Blend the curry paste with the rabbit, stirring continuously until heated through.

  2. Add salt, onion juice, hot mango chutney, and almond or coconut milk, stirring until the rabbit is coated and no liquid remains.

Serve

  1. Place boiled rice on a dish, hollow the center, and add the rabbit.

  2. Serve with mango chutney, cayenne, lemon juice, and garnish with chillies and sultanas.

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. Almond + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Mango + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together183 recipes

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

  3. Onion + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Mango + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together302 recipes

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

  5. Almond + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Rabbit
Provides the main protein, which becomes tender as it cooks in the curry sauce.
Curry paste
Supplies the spice base that flavours the whole dish.
Almond milk or coconut milk
Adds moisture and richness so the rabbit is coated in a creamy sauce.
Hot mango chutney
Adds sweetness and acidity that balance the heat of the curry paste.

The step that matters

Stirring until no liquid remains. Cooking off the added liquid lets the sauce cling to the rabbit instead of pooling on the plate. Stirring continuously while heating also keeps the paste from scorching on the base of the pan.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rabbit, mango, almond, rice, lemon):

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Broccolifits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rabbit, mango, almond, rice, lemon. 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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