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Kebobbed Currie

A skewered veal, apple, and onion dish seasoned with curry and fried in butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,706 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Kebobbed Currie

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the apples and onions.

  2. Cut the veal into round slices of the same size.

Assemble

  1. Thread twelve alternating slices of meat, apples, and onions onto each skewer.

  2. Sprinkle the skewers generously with curry powder.

Cook and serve

  1. Fry the skewers in a stew pan with enough butter to cover them.

  2. Serve without removing the skewers.

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. Apple + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,706 recipes

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

  2. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Onion + vealtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,841 recipes

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

  4. Apple + oniontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,206 recipes

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

  5. Veal + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,381 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Provides the main meat, which cooks through while the outside browns in the butter.
Apples
Add sweetness and moisture that contrast with the savory curry and meat.
Onions
Soften and sweeten as they fry, adding savory depth to the skewers.
Curry powder
Coats the skewers with aromatic spice flavor, and its fat-soluble compounds bloom in the hot butter.
Butter
Conducts heat for frying and browns the surfaces, adding richness.

The step that matters

Fry the skewers in enough butter to cover them. Frying in ample hot fat browns the surfaces quickly and cooks the meat evenly. Too little or cool butter steams the veal and leaves it pale and tough.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Avocadofits about as well
  4. Applethe original

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