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Mutton, Curried

A dish of sliced cooked mutton simmered in curry sauce and served with boiled rice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,019 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Mutton, Curried

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove all skin and fat from the mutton and cut it into small thin slices.

  2. Prepare the curry sauce as directed.

Cook and serve

  1. Add the mutton to the sauce and let it simmer for at least 30 minutes.

  2. Serve the curried mutton with well-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. Mutton + ricetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,019 recipes

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

  2. Sauce + ricetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,396 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Mutton + saucetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton
Provides the main protein, which becomes tender as it simmers in the sauce.
Curry sauce
Carries the spice flavour and keeps the mutton moist during simmering.
Boiled rice
Serves as a neutral base that soaks up the sauce alongside the meat.

The step that matters

Simmering the mutton in the sauce. Simmering for at least 30 minutes lets the sauce flavours penetrate the meat and softens its texture. Cooking too briskly can toughen the meat and leave the sauce uneven.

“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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