Skip to main content
Main

Lamb Chops Breaded

Breaded lamb chops fried in clarified drippings and garnished with parsley or cress.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Lamb and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,322 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Lamb Chops Breaded

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the lamb chops as for plain fried chops.

  2. Dip the chops in the beaten egg.

  3. Roll the chops in the finely sifted cracker or bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat enough clarified drippings in a pan to float the chops, and ensure the drippings are hot before adding the chops; test with a piece of stale bread.

  2. Fry the chops until golden brown, then remove from the pan and drain.

  3. Arrange on a hot platter and garnish with parsley or cress.

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. Lamb + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,322 recipes

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

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Lamb + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together598 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

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

  5. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb chops
Form the main body of the dish, cooked until tender and browned on the outside.
Beaten egg
Acts as a binder so the crumbs adhere to the chops.
Cracker or bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns during frying.
Clarified drippings
Fry the coating evenly and add rich flavor while browning the crust.

The step that matters

Heat the drippings until hot before adding the chops. If the fat is not hot enough, the breading absorbs oil and turns greasy instead of crisping. A hot pan seals the coating quickly, so the crumbs brown and form a crust that holds together.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, egg, bread):

  1. Parsleythe original
  2. Nutmegfits about as well
  3. Capersfits less well
  4. Cinnamonfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, egg, bread. 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.

You might also like

Brown BreadBrown Bread461 recipesWhite BreadWhite Bread80 recipesBread OmeletteBread Omelette60 recipesOatmeal BreadOatmeal Bread51 recipes