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Paprika Veal Cutlet

A veal cutlet cooked with paprika, onion, tomatoes, and sour cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20,633 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Paprika Veal Cutlet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Season the veal slices with salt.

Make the sauce

  1. Melt the lard in a pan and add the grated onion; fry until yellow.

  2. Stir in the paprika, then add the veal slices, tomatoes, and water.

  3. Simmer until the meat is tender.

Finish and serve

  1. Pour in the sour cream, bring to a boil, and 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. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

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

  2. Veal + oniontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,841 recipes

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

  3. Veal + tomatotop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Onion + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,827 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Veal + creamtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,202 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

Onion and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,827 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Is the main protein, which becomes tender through slow simmering in the liquid.
Onion
Softens and sweetens as it fries, building a flavour base for the sauce.
Paprika
Gives the dish its colour and a warm, sweet pepper aroma.
Sour cream
Adds richness and a tangy note, and thickens the sauce when heated gently.
Tomatoes
Add acidity and moisture, rounding out the flavour of the sauce.

The step that matters

Pour in the sour cream, bring to a boil, and serve.. Sour cream can curdle or separate when it is boiled hard. Once it is added, keep the heat low and bring the sauce only to a gentle simmer so it stays smooth.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, onion, cream):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, onion, cream. 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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