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Curried Chops

Curried chops are cooked with onion, curry powder, flour, lemon juice, and served with rice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Curried Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and cook

  1. Chop the onion and sauté it in a stewpan with salt, pepper, and nutmeg.

  2. Trim excess fat from the chops and add them to the pan, cooking until done.

  3. In a bowl, mix the curry powder, flour, and lemon juice.

  4. Stir the mixture over the cooked chops.

Serve

  1. Serve with boiled rice on the side, garnished with chopped parsley.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Nutmeg + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

What each ingredient does

Chops
Provide the main protein, which cooks through in the pan with the onion.
Onion
Softens as it sautés, adding sweetness and a savoury base to the sauce.
Curry powder
Supplies the spiced, aromatic flavour that defines the dish.
Flour
Thickens the curry mixture so it clings to the chops rather than running off.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich, spiced flavours.

The step that matters

Stirring the curry mixture over the cooked chops. Flour mixed with curry powder and lemon juice can clump if it is added without being fully combined first. Mixing it smooth in a bowl before stirring it over the chops helps it thicken evenly.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, nutmeg, flour, lemon, rice, parsley):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Arrowrootfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, nutmeg, flour, lemon, rice, parsley. 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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