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Dopeeaza Curry

A chicken curry with onions, coriander, red pepper, curds and sliced sour apple, cooked in butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Coriander and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,949 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Dopeeaza Curry

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the base

  1. Melt the butter in a pan over medium heat.

  2. Add the sliced onion to the pan.

  3. Cook the onion until browned.

  4. Remove the browned onion from the pan.

Cook the curry

  1. Add the disjointed chicken to the pan.

  2. Fry the chicken until browned.

  3. Mix the ground coriander, red pepper, chopped onions, and curds in a bowl.

  4. Add this mixture to the chicken in the pan.

  5. Stir in the sliced sour apple.

  6. Keep stirring to prevent burning.

  7. Add a little water if the curry becomes too dry.

  8. Cook until the apple is tender.

Serve

  1. Serve.

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. Coriander + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,949 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Onion + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  3. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Onion + coriandertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Chicken + coriandertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,751 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Provides fat for frying and carries flavour through the onions and chicken.
Chicken
Supplies the main protein, which browns in the fat to add savoury depth.
Curds
Add tang and body, thickening the sauce as they combine with the spices.
Onions
Brown to build sweetness and a rich base for the curry.
Coriander seeds
Contribute warm, citrusy aroma that flavours the sauce.
Sour apple
Adds acidity and softens into the sauce, balancing the richness.

The step that matters

Keep stirring to prevent burning. Onions, curds and spices contain sugars and proteins that scorch on hot metal, so constant stirring keeps the sauce from catching and turning bitter.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, onion, chicken, coriander, pepper):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, onion, chicken, coriander, pepper. 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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